Goodbye guys

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Movie
German title Goodbye guys
Original title До свидания, мальчики
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1966
length 83 minutes
Rod
Director Mikhail Kalik
script Boris Balter
Michail Kalik
production Mosfilm
music Mikael Tariwerdiev
camera Levan Paatashvili
cut Lydia Kuznetsova
occupation

Goodbye, guys (original title: До свидания, мальчики , Do swidanija, maltschiki ) is a Soviet feature film directed by Mikhail Kalik from 1966 based on the novel by Boris Balter from 1962.

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At the end of the 1930s, three 18-year-old boys passed their time in a small town by the sea with swimming, political discussions and meeting girls of the same age. Their school days are coming to an end and they are proposed as exemplary Komsomol for study at a military school. The army commissioner in charge can convince them to leave this school as lieutenants after three years. The only thing that is still unclear to them is how to teach their parents. That's why there is trouble at home first. Only an article in the newspaper about their delegation, in which they are once again named as the best of their year, brings some pride and calm back into the families.

Volodya Below immediately tells this news to his girlfriend Inka, who is happy for him because her father is also a soldier. On the way home, he gets his first quick kiss from her. When the article was read in the streets the next day, the boys were very proud and stood next to such a notice, smoking. They also think it's time to finally get a shave and go to a hairdresser. Then they are invited to a glass of wine, which it doesn't stop with. Inka is surprised that Volodya smells of alcohol, is shaved and smokes, so she promises him that she will serve cognac for breakfast after their wedding . Then they kiss properly for the first time. The boys spend the day after graduation on the beach with the girls and in the evening they go to a cultural event together. On the way home Inka dreams out loud about how she will visit Volodja during her training and promises to always want to stay with him.

However, the pattern does not go according to the boys' ideas. Here they find out that they will be separated, because none of the three will go to the Navy, but Volodja and Vitja are supposed to go to infantry school and Sascha is scheduled for a medical career. Inka takes this information calmly because Volodya will not be separated from her for more than three years. They actually want to spend the last days before the draft , but Inka has to go to a kolkhoz with the school for several days to pull weeds. Both are very unhappy about this and Volodya drives after her, although he is actually no longer allowed to leave the city. While he is showing Inka the easiest way to remove the weeds, someone in charge of the helpers comes to tell him that his friends are going to pick him up in a boat because they are supposed to join the army the next day. Inka takes him to the beach and both are very sad. The next day, Volodya is warmly welcomed by his mother at the train station. He should never see her again. Suddenly Inka walks a few meters next to the train on the open road and calls to her friends: Goodbye, boys . Vitja died near Novorschew in 1941, and Sascha was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956 .

The film gets its structure from Volodya's memories, entered as subtitles. Short historical film excerpts, spread over the entire film, convey the passage of time from the militarization in Germany to the war and the return of the Soviet soldiers.

Production and publication

This black and white film premiered on January 3, 1966 in the Soviet Union and received over 13 million visitors there.

In January 2019, the film was shown in the Berlin Arsenal cinema under the title Auf Wiedersehen, Jungs in the original version with German subtitles. No other previous performances in Germany must be proven.

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