The Bitter Endgame

This is a film about Alexander Alekhine, a brilliant grandmaster, world champion, who crushed the legendary Capablanca and did not concede the chess crown to any of his rivals. The forces of creative identity contained in our people were brilliantly manifested in the talent of Alekhine— a Russian to the very bottom of his soul. But Alyokhin is not only the legitimate pride of Russia. That's her pain, too, sharp and persistent.



The authors of the film "The White Snow of Russia" decided to categorically and uncompromisingly show the doom to tragedy of a truly talented, internally honest Russian man who found himself outside his Homeland and realized his irreparable guilt before it. The content of Alekhine's life, along with his resounding victories at the chess tables and his burning greed for creativity, was an inexorable longing for his abandoned home, his native people. How right Gogol was when he exclaimed in one of his letters: "My friend! Either you have an unfeeling heart, or you don't know what Russia is for a Russian." These red—hot words are the key to understanding the philosophy, the central idea of the film about Alyokhin.



I'm watching, for example, a film story about the fate of the famous Italian dancer who soared to the top of Hollywood fame, Rudolfo Valentino. This elegantly stylized retro film, directed by Ken Russell in England, examines the dramatic contradiction between myth and reality, the mismatch of the public idol's appearance in the mid-20s with the inner insecurity of a movie star, nervous vulnerability, and fragility of an artist. The motive of nostalgia was not present in the picture in any way — apparently, this topic did not bother the authors at all.



For a film about a Russian emigrant, on the contrary, it is this motif, not even a motif, but an all—consuming theme that is the main meaning. The features of the "myth" about Alyokhin are partially preserved here: it is known that the grandmaster carried with him everywhere, as a mascot, the cute Siamese cat Chess, that his shoelaces were always untied. Only the anecdote about the cash cow has not been played out: they say that when Alekhine stopped drinking and switched to milk, he got his own Dutch-bred cow. But I note once again that it is not these details of Alyokhin's popular appearance that are paramount to the film, but the bleeding inner drama of an indigenous Russian man who, through no fault of his own, lost his native soil.



"The White Snow of Russia"... The picture provokes serious thoughts about civic and human honesty, about the responsibility of talent to time, to the father's land, which nurtured him, waited for grateful loyalty, and as a result was deceived.



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