Come and See (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 24 March 1986 . Retrieved 5 March 2020. What exactly does one say about a film that is without a doubt, one of the greatest anti-war films of all time? Film4's 50 Films To See Before You Die". Channel 4. 22 July 2006. Archived from the original on 27 April 2008 . Retrieved 19 February 2020. And such is war; the bombardment of their temporary idyllic setting comes swiftly and loudly, along with the Nazis out of the sky. Death from above, and it's here before you'll ever be able to react. Klimov did not make any more films after Come and See, [66] leading some critics to speculate as to why. In 2001, Klimov said, "I lost interest in making films... Everything that was possible I felt I had already done." [20] Accolades [ edit ]

The detail is quite vivid throughout, revealing all the nasty, horrors of bullet wounds, burnt flesh, and exploded bodies. The practical effects in the makeup look excellent with fantastic wrinkles, age marks, dirt, and bloody bits of human body parts strewn about. Wider shots of the trees in the forest and military uniforms all show the necessary textures in all lighting conditions. The closeups of the actor's faces are where the spotlight is though, showcasing every tiny detail in these terrified faces. Stein, Elliott (18 August 2009). "Come and See". The Village Voice. New York City. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012 . Retrieved 25 February 2014. There have been a smattering of films over the past several decades that cover the atrocities of the Holocaust with everything from the Oscar-winning Schindler's List from Steven Spielberg to the just as important Hungarian indie film Son of Saul. Even Salo: 120 Days of Sodom covered the nazi regime in Italy and most recently, Taika Waititi took an impressive approach with Jojo Rabbit. These films have spanned multiple decades and genres that try and tell part of a massive story and war that happened not too long ago across the globe. Claude Lanzmann's 10-hour documentary Shoah captured perhaps the most visceral stories from all aspects of life from that time, but it's with Soviet film director Elm Klimov's 1985 film Come And See that some of the most disturbing visuals are shown that have capsulated the Holocaust in a strikingly visual way, similar to the recent film 1917, a vision that is not soon forgotten.Goscilo, Helena; Hashamova, Yana, eds. (2010). Cinepaternity. Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 95ff. ISBN 978-0-253-22187-2.

The bomb blasts are different than those in Hollywood films — when a hit strikes the woods, trees are blown down. Real explosives are used. Those actual tracer bullets flying over the actors’ heads are terrifying, staccato blasts of red sparks. Klimov’s cameraman must have had guns wired to sync with his camera’s shutter — each muzzle blast is a little inferno. Roger Deakins (HD, 10 Mins.) - Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins talks about the look of Come and See and how the filmmakers used the cameras. He also discusses the tone of the movie and how challenging this film was to make. This is a new interview specifically for this release. Le Fanu, Mark (30 June 2020). " Come and See: Orphans of the Storm". The Criterion Collection . Retrieved 4 July 2020. And I decided to make a film about this tragedy. I perfectly understood that the film would end up a harsh one. I decided that the central role of the village lad Flyora would not be played by a professional actor, who upon immersion into a difficult role could have protected himself psychologically with his accumulated acting experience, technique and skill. I wanted to find a simple boy fourteen years of age. We had to prepare him for the most difficult experiences, then capture them on film. And at the same time, we had to protect him from the stresses so that he wasn't left in the loony bin after filming was over, but was returned to his mother alive and healthy. Fortunately, with Aleksei Kravchenko, who played Flyora and who later became a good actor, everything went smoothly.

Come and Seewas his last movie. It took seven years to get the script approved by the Soviets, and then he and the co-writer disagreed with the exclusions they were asked to make, so much so that they waited for another seven years until they got approval to make the film they wanted. Klimov’s answer to that comes at the finish, which I won’t spoil. A sudden stylistic gear-shift throws the film into a reverse-apocalyptic montage worthy of Kuleshov or Pudovkin, that manages to express some of the author’s intention not just to kill Hitler, but to kill the Hitler demon inside of each of us.

That co-writer, Ales Adamovich, was an author whose books were the source material for the film. He fought against the Nazis as a Partisan rebel. Come and See ( Russian: Иди и смотри, romanized: Idi i smotri; Belarusian: Ідзі і глядзі, romanized: Idzi i hliadzi) is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. [4] Its screenplay, written by Klimov and Ales Adamovich, is based on the 1971 novel Khatyn [5] and the 1977 memoir I Am from the Fiery Village [6] ( Я из огненной деревни, Ya iz ognennoy derevni), [7] of which Adamovich was a co-author. [8] Klimov had to fight eight years of censorship from the Soviet authorities before he could be allowed to produce the film in its entirety. [9] [10] Klimov was married to another director of note, Larisa Shepitko who also plumbed the horrors of Nazis and WWII in her own incredible film, The Ascent.

a b c d Dunne, Nathan (18 July 2016). "Atrocity exhibition: is Come and See Russia's greatest ever war film?". The Calvert Journal . Retrieved 20 July 2019. Hoberman, J. (30 January 2001). "High Lonesome". The Village Voice. New York City . Retrieved 25 February 2014. Made in 1985, it's not a particularly "gory" film, in the sense of blood and guts (as something like "Saving Private Ryan" is), but the brutality of war has almost never been so realistically depicted. The Nazi "Einsatzgruppen" (or "death squads") were utterly merciless and cruel, carving their way through several countries and giving no quarter to anyone they met. This film takes place in what is now called Belarus and follows a young Russian boy named Flyora, who joins the Soviet resistance against the Nazi invasion. He is then immersed in a living nightmare of unbelievable carnage as he tries to make his way to somewhere safe, but there is seemingly nowhere to be found. Perhaps one of the reasons this film is so brutal and horrifying is that it's told from the perspective of a young Soviet boy named Flyora, who is basically drafted from his village, where his mother and family both root for him and don't want him to go off and fight the Nazis. His childlike charm as seen in the first couple minutes of the movie where he and a young friend are playing in the sand, looking for buried rifles of soldiers all comes to a screeching halt sooner rather than later as young Flyora faces the intense nightmare of war. a b " Come and See (21 February 2020 re-release)". Box Office Mojo. IMDbPro . Retrieved 18 March 2020.

Viktor Petrov (SD, 8 Mins.) - An additional 2001 interview with the production designer of the film, where he talks about making the film look like a war-torn landscape in the early 1940s. He also talks about working with the cast and crew and some of the hardships of this practical film. In Russian with English subtitles. Janus Films (13 December 2019). "COME AND SEE - NEW RESTORATION TRAILER" . Retrieved 18 February 2020– via Vimeo.

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Come and See (1985) — release date in Russia and other countries - Film search]. Кинопоиск [Film search] (in Russian) . Retrieved 28 May 2023. Because this WWII in Belarus, which is between Poland and Russia, it's only going to get worse. It is enough to allude to further atrocities. However, the burning structure of villagers desperately trying to escape while Nazis laugh and clap and play music absurd to the scene, futher dehumanizing their victims, is another scene seared into my mind for all time.