At the heart of the play is the story of Viktor Astafyev, the same name, who went through the whole of the Great Patriotic War as a simple soldier.
The main hero of the play is the writer himself. From the present, he peers into the past, into himself - a young, cheerful soldier. Re-lives his first youthful love, the first wound, the first loss, the first dead German.
The story of soldier Viti is the story of the "other war", not the one lacquered, heroic, which we are accustomed to seeing in beautiful Soviet films. After all, not only were they at war in the war, they also lived: they fell in love, made friends, hated. But it was from these everyday life, from pain, dirt and countless losses that our Victory was born.
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The well-known writer Viktor Astafyev volunteered for the front. He went through the war as a simple soldier. After a year he looks back, remembers his youth.
Once he was just Vitya, a "cheerful soldier", and in the war he was able to comprehend simple human truths, joys and sorrows, with which the world is rich in both military and peacetime. After all, it is possible to experience the death of loved ones with bitterness and rejoice at the first love, under any circumstances.
But this soldier is not so simple, though youthful, this soldier: he knows what price the victory has been gained, he will be able to tell in his works about the inconspicuous but most significant people, honest, sometimes inconspicuous workers, each of whom introduced his own Contribution to the common cause.
“ Were at the play on 11.03.18. Many thanks, very strong impressions left the play! Looked at one go! That's the way to tell about the war. Thank you!