Professional Analysis of the Soviet Film Yan Nanfei

Flying South in the Wilderness is an unprecedented success of Soviet patriotic war movies in 1950s. Its attraction first comes from the authenticity of the characters and life descriptions in the play. The film is adapted from the playwright Victor Rozov's play Immortal Man, which depicts a brave warrior with a pure heart like Boris, but uses more pen and ink to describe Veronica, an ordinary girl with weak personality. She grew up in suffering and learned the meaning of life. She saw the suffering of the country and the nation from her personal tragedy and pain, thus linking her destiny with that of the motherland and the people. The main theme of the film is tragic, but the ending is bright: Veronica blends in with the people who meet the soldiers in front and moves towards a new life in the future together.

The attraction of the film also lies in its dazzling expression: Flying South in Wild Goose is one of the most outstanding masterpieces of Soviet poetry films. Kalatozov was an active advocate of poetry films in 1950s. He declared that "a real movie must be a poetic movie", but the artistic spirit of poetic movies he understood was completely integrated into the smooth prose narrative paragraphs. The poetic feeling in movies is prominently reflected in photography skills-this is the theory of "emotional photography" that appeared in Soviet movies at that time, that is, film photography should not be an objective record but should have a strong emotional color. Photographer Ulushevsky created a model of emotional photography in such paragraphs as Seeing Off at the Station and Boris's Sacrifice, and this paragraph of Boris's Sacrifice became one of the most famous classic paragraphs in film history.

The artistic appeal of Wild Goose Flying South is also inseparable from the wonderful performances of the actors. Tatyana Samoilova, who plays Veronica (later anna karenine), alexei batalov, who plays Boris (later Moscow don't believe in tears), and Vasily Meichang Kuriyev, who plays Boris's father (1954 plays another work by Kalatozov), these Soviet performing artists are perfect.