Come and See
I have rarely seen a film more ruthless in its depiction of human evil.
Come and See
This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s Joan of Arc) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camerawork and expressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors, who took eight years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
Genre
Drama,
War
Runtime
143
Language
Russian,
German,
Belarusian
Director
Elem Klimov
Writer(s)
Ales Adamovich,
Elem Klimov
Cast
Alexei Kravchenko (Flyora),
Olga Mironova (Glasha)Liubomiras Laucevičius (Kosach),
Vladas Bagdonas (Rubezh),
Evgeniy Tilicheyev (Ukrainian collaborator),
Viktors Lorents (German commander),
Jüri Lumiste (young German officer)
Awards:
Winner, Venezia Classici Award, Venice Film Festival
Played at
Monica Film Center 3.06.20 - 3.15.20
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