Танго старой гвардии

Tango i shakhmaty, mezhdunarodnyĭ shpionazh, moshennichestvo i krazhi, temnye pereulki, temnye storony dushi i li͡ubovʹ - obrechennai͡a i na vsi͡u zhiznʹ. Dva cheloveka iz raznykh mirov - v proshlom soldat, a nyne zhigolo, shpion ponevole i lovkiĭ vor bez grosha v karmane Maks Kosta i privychnai͡a k roskoshi nepronit͡saemai͡a svetskai͡a lʹvit͡sa Mersedes Insunsa - razygryvai͡ut dostoĭnui͡u Khichkoka napri͡azhennui͡u dramu rokovoĭ li͡ubvi i predatelʹstva. Ėtim dvoim vypali tri korotkie vstrechi: v 1920-e, v izyskannykh interʹerakh transatlanticheskogo laĭnera i v trushchobakh Buėnos-Aĭresa; v 1930-e v Nit͡st͡se, kogda nad Evropoĭ uzhe navisla tenʹ vsego, chto predstoi͡alo; i v Sorrento, vo vremi͡a i͡arostnoĭ skhvatki chiliĭskogo i sovetskogo grossmeĭsterov za shakhmatnui͡u koronu, v 1960-e, kogda zhiznʹ uzhe proshla i ostaetsi͡a tolʹko ne bez zavisti smotretʹ na molodykh, i͡asnoglazykh i upornykh, po vozmozhnosti ikh podderzhivai͡a. Ėto istorii͡a o pylkosti tango i kholodnom raschete shakhmat - no ne tolʹko. Ėto istorii͡a o velikoĭ li͡ubvi - no ne v neĭ vse delo. Arturo Peres-Reverte - byvshiĭ voennyĭ zhurnalist, proslavlennyĭ avtor blesti͡ashchikh istoricheskikh, voennykh, prikli͡uchencheskikh romanov, perevedennykh na sorok i͡azykov, sozdatelʹ t͡sikla o kapitane Diego Alatriste, obladatelʹ prestizhneĭshikh literaturnykh nagrad. Ego "Tango staroĭ gvardii" - cherno-beloe kino o podlinnoĭ strasti tango, kotoroe zvuchit v tebe do kont͡sa tvoikh dneĭ, o nostalʹgii po ushedshim vremenam, kogda zhiznʹ byla polna prikli͡ucheniĭ, nepredskazuema i so vsem, chto priplyvalo tebe v ruki, ty rasstavalsi͡a legko, potomu chto byl molod i nichego ne boi͡alsi͡a, i o starosti, kotorai͡a polna sozhaleniĭ, odnako nichutʹ ne sposobna izmenitʹ ni prozhzhennogo moshennika, ni nastoi͡ashchego ryt͡sari͡a.

Tango and chess, international espionage, fraud and theft, dark alleys, dark sides of the soul and love — doomed and for life. Two people from different worlds — a soldier in the past, and now a gigolo, a reluctant spy and a clever thief without a penny in his pocket Max Costa and the impenetrable socialite Mercedes Insunsa, accustomed to luxury, play out a tense drama of fatal love and betrayal worthy of Hitchcock. These two had three brief meetings: in the 1920s, in the exquisite interiors of a transatlantic liner and in the slums of Buenos Aires; in the 1930s in Nice, when the shadow of everything that was coming was already hanging over Europe; and in Sorrento, during the fierce battle of the Chilean and Soviet grandmasters for the chess crown, in 1960-e, when life has already passed and it remains only not without envy to look at the young, bright-eyed and persistent, supporting them as much as possible. This is a story about the ardor of tango and the cold calculation of chess — but not only. This is a story about great love — but that's not the whole point. Arturo Perez-Reverte is a former military journalist, renowned author of brilliant historical, military, adventure novels translated into forty languages, creator of the series about Captain Diego Alatriste, winner of the most prestigious literary awards. His "Tango of the Old Guard" is a black—and-white movie about the true passion of tango, which sounds in you until the end of your days, about nostalgia for bygone times, when life was full of adventures, unpredictable and with everything that sailed into your hands, you parted easily, because you were young and not afraid of anything, and about old age, which is full of regrets, but is not at all capable of changing either a hardened fraudster or a real knight.