Come and See (Idi i smotri) ()
Cast: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Luibomiras Laucevitchuis, Vladas Bagdonas
Release Date: February 21, 2020
Runtime: 2 hr. 23 mins.
Genre: War, Drama
This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is astunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors ofwar. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventureand glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare ofunimaginable carnage and cruelty?rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov's subjective camerawork andexpressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors whotook eight years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps themost visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
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This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is astunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors ofwar. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventureand glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare ofunimaginable carnage and cruelty?rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov's subjective camerawork andexpressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors whotook eight years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps themost visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
