Kindergarten (1983 film)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko's film came out in the years of the poet's disgrace, so it was not by chance that he became the subject of Soviet criticism and found recognition in the West (after an out-of-competition show at the Venice Film Festival).

The famous film critic Victor Dyomin called the picture worthless,^[2] while the film director Savva Kulish, after watching the film, praised the work of Yevtushenko, wishing him further success: Yevtushenko is trying to implement on the screen purely literary devices hence the obviously overestimated in comparison with the usual capacity in the movie capacity of plastic images, their literary type metaphorical. Sometimes this metaphoricity strikes accuracy and truth. Sometimes it seems deliberate, and then reveals a taste of literary. But before us is a clear attempt to try the film equipment on the utmost strain, and this attempt is fruitful not only for the writer, but also for the cinema.^[3]

Script writer Yevgeny Gabrilovich supported the creative search for the poet.^[4]

Aleksandr Fyodorov: All this looks pretentious, secondary and even unprofessional. But the nonprofessionality of the author of the film in the cinema, as it is paradoxical, has also positive aspects. Yevtushenko removes the picture of the memory of his military childhood so that the mosaic of events consists of many unpolished, different and unequal episodes.^[5]

• Kindergarten at IMDb
• Евгений Евтушенко устроил в Зиме «Детский сад»

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