COME AND SEE (1985)
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This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in what today is known as Belarus, teenaged Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) 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 camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors who took seven years to approve its script, COME AND SEE is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Elem Klimov; SCR Ales Adamovich. Soviet Union, 1985, color, 143 min. In Belarusian, Russian and German with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 143 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, July 08, 2023
Genre: War drama