Movie Review 1944 August

Last night, I saw the 2001 film August 1944. I specifically wanted to compare it to the modern movie that I had seen a few weeks ago. I quickly realized that there was no comparison to the 2001 Byelorussian film. In acting, film angle, and creativity, the older film wins out. The Byelorussian film was played excellently with believable characters and kept one&attention throughout the film. The main actors were manly without needing the flattery of constant camera action to show them from all sides, which, unfortunately, was the case in the modern adaptation.The modern adaptation has the feel of a computer game quest, as if the director played a lot of computer games and thought the audience would enjoy that as well. The close-ups of the faces became ever greater in the film but without meaning. I suppose inner turmoil was supposed to be the effect, but the camera held on the faces too long as if it was the only creative idea forward. One of the absurd methods in the film was indeed almost comic, like Mae West in the train taking shots at the Indians and never missing. Here, one of the characters needed to look for a saboteur and immediately climbed up to a top window and almost immediately saw the evil traitor, an old woman knitting while walking around the crowded station.While Russian society is, could we say, finding itself again amidst all the enemies round about, the Russian film industry is lagging, maybe years behind, unable to understand people outside of the studio...