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The portrait essay for film journalism is not a new genre at all. There have been many victories on this field. "Nina Khakhalina" is far from the first of them and not the most significant. There were also such interesting and clever experiments in this genre as the film "Without Legends", shot according to the script by A. Sazhin, directed by G. Frank and A. Brench at the Kuibyshev Newsreel Studio. It was a debatable portrait, so to speak. The authors drew the character of a person and his image together with the audience, trusting them and not hiding that the hero raises many difficult questions for them, to which they cannot give exhaustive and unambiguous answers.

The famous excavator and hydraulic engineer Boris Egorovich Kovalenko, who died in an airplane accident at the age of thirty-four, had a complex character, which combined a willingness to selfless dedication and delight in his own popularity, a rationalizing mind and childish naivety, spiritual selflessness and sudden disregard for the person next to him. The authors of the film prefer frankness over idealization. They tell us what they know about their hero without hiding it. The argument of people who worked with Boris Kovalenko is transferred to the screen; and Ivan Vasilyevich Komzin, who raised him, answered the question — was Boris's pose peculiar? He knocks furiously on the table with his huge hand .:

"No, I'm not!" I'm dismissing that!

He speaks forcefully about Kovalenko's simple-minded openness. And when the interlocutor talks about the inconsistency of his character, Komzin suddenly wearily and sadly remarks:

— Well, our life is made up of contradictions.

The viewer does not meet here with mentors who offer him ready-made answers, but with intelligent interlocutors who are ready to think with him about complex phenomena of the surrounding reality; he is involved in an exciting argument. I think this is a good example of a genuine TV movie: the interlocutors come to your house, and a conversation with them — casual and important — spiritually enriches you. But the "televisibility" of the film is a different topic. Here, this film is worth remembering just to make sure how diverse the genre of the portrait essay is and what opportunities it opens up to the film publicist. But these opportunities can be successfully realized only if the authors do not neglect the basic requirement that should be imposed on an artist-publicist: when starting work, he must be able to answer three simple questions — what, to whom, and why he is going to tell from the screen.

If the three answers are still unclear to himself, the author cannot count on success. This is the alphabet, and it's a pity that it has to be reminded to other documentaries. However, the basic truths can be forgotten and crossed in different ways.

In the film "Responsible for everything", released by Lenkin Chronicle, the intentions of the authors (screenwriter M. Elenin, directed by O. Kulikov, cinematographer Yu. Alexandrov) are clear. And they deserve every approval and respect.

Admittedly, the task is not easy: the film should not only introduce its viewers to a specific outstanding person, since the example of this person should show almost the most significant results of building a socialist society. The hero of the essay, a communist, an advanced worker, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, was able to form only in this society, and the constant sense of high responsibility that he feels as a citizen and a communist reveals the features of the new, socialist system with special force and sharpness.

But even in this case, the good intentions of the authors were far from fully realized. Their successful implementation was prevented by one of the oldest and most dangerous enemies that lurk at a publicist's workplace: pretentiousness.

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