Come and See (1985)
Country: USSR
Technical: col 142m
Director: Elem Klimov
Cast: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Synopsis:
1943: in Byelorussia the retreating German forces engage in a slash and burn policy involving wholesale slaughter of villages, and a young boy sees it all. He ultimately joins the partisans.
Review:
One of the great war films, by turns harrowing and poetic, this indelible piece of work has the humanity to conclude with the idea that even Hitler was somebody's baby. As befits the child's eye through which we witness all the action, the camera seizes on telling, sometimes surreal, details: a reconnaissance plane that constantly hums overhead, a German officer's pet rodent, a female SS girl eating lobster. For once Mozart's Lacrimosa does not seem gratuitous, though I still wish Klimov hadn't used it. A closing title - the only one - clarifies that over 600 villages were destroyed in this way.
Country: USSR
Technical: col 142m
Director: Elem Klimov
Cast: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Synopsis:
1943: in Byelorussia the retreating German forces engage in a slash and burn policy involving wholesale slaughter of villages, and a young boy sees it all. He ultimately joins the partisans.
Review:
One of the great war films, by turns harrowing and poetic, this indelible piece of work has the humanity to conclude with the idea that even Hitler was somebody's baby. As befits the child's eye through which we witness all the action, the camera seizes on telling, sometimes surreal, details: a reconnaissance plane that constantly hums overhead, a German officer's pet rodent, a female SS girl eating lobster. For once Mozart's Lacrimosa does not seem gratuitous, though I still wish Klimov hadn't used it. A closing title - the only one - clarifies that over 600 villages were destroyed in this way.
Country: USSR
Technical: col 142m
Director: Elem Klimov
Cast: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Synopsis:
1943: in Byelorussia the retreating German forces engage in a slash and burn policy involving wholesale slaughter of villages, and a young boy sees it all. He ultimately joins the partisans.
Review:
One of the great war films, by turns harrowing and poetic, this indelible piece of work has the humanity to conclude with the idea that even Hitler was somebody's baby. As befits the child's eye through which we witness all the action, the camera seizes on telling, sometimes surreal, details: a reconnaissance plane that constantly hums overhead, a German officer's pet rodent, a female SS girl eating lobster. For once Mozart's Lacrimosa does not seem gratuitous, though I still wish Klimov hadn't used it. A closing title - the only one - clarifies that over 600 villages were destroyed in this way.