The story of “Cry for help” can be summarized in three lines: a 16-years-old, Anton Kolomiitsev, a student at a technical secondary school, agrees for a large sum of money to pass himself off as the perpetrator of a certain crime committed by another person. As his relationship with the law and life becomes too involved, he steals a motorcycle and dies in a crash. But in this film, the simple story helps the director S. Potepalov, who is also the co-author of the script, to paint a multifaceted group portrait of a certain layer of today’s adolescents, young people who do not have any definite moral ideals and are prisoners to false and de grading values. They hang out in “packs” and “gangs”, but they are extremely lonely and the relationships between individuals in this group are fragile and easily breakable. The film is an artistically convincing warning to young people and their parents, a wining of the dangers of despiritualization in the absence of moral values. Mostly non-professional actors appear in this film which makes it all the more convincing.
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