Archived: Come and See

Come and See

Idi i smotri, feature, USSR, 1985

DIRECTED BY: Elem Klimov

CONTENT:

After being drafted into the partisan army with a rifle he stole from a dead soldier in 1943, 14-year-old Belarusian boy Flora Gaishun was initially hired to perform less important tasks. When, during an attack, the partisan commander Kosač orders him to stay in the camp, the disappointed Fljora will walk into the woods, where he will meet the girl Glaša. Although he knows that she loves Kosač, Fljora will fall in love with her at first sight and their conversation will abruptly end. attack by German paratroopers. But this is only the beginning of everything that Flora, who joined the partisans wanting to take part in the fight against the Nazis, will experience when faced with the horrors of war. Not only will he witness the destruction and executions of apocalyptic proportions, which will reach its climax in the shocking scenes of burning villages and killing the population, but he will also witness when members of his family and neighbors fall victim to genocide perpetrated by Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators.

In 1985 at the International Film Festival in Moscow won the Golden Prize and the International Federation of Film Critics Award FIPRESCI, and in 2017 at the Venice Film Festival won the Venezia Classica Prize for restored classic titles, a fascinating war drama by co-writer and director Elem Klimov, Welcome, Agony Farewell) is considered one of the most successful films with the theme of World War II in general. Klimov was intrigued by the short story I am from the fiery village of the Belarusian writer Alex Adamovich, a prose based partly on the young partisan’s own experiences during the Nazi occupation of Belarus, and written by Klimov himself. Originally produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II, Klimov’s work has turned into an impressive study of the horrors of war and the consequences that horrors leave on a sensitive and innocent young individual. The author tried to make the film, which is characterized by a misanthropic atmosphere, extremely dark tone and uncompromising and extremely uncomfortable depiction of war destruction and horrors, for eight years, but received permission only after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and began the process of social change called perestroika. The main role is played by the excellent Alexei Kravchenko, for whom this was his debut performance and who later had a relatively successful career, including performing in the Ninth Company of Fedor Bondarchuk and Painted Bird by Václav Marhoul.

COLOR, 142 MIN

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