Come And See (Criterion Collection)

Belarusfilm (1985)

Drama | War

USA | Russian | Color | 02:22

#2333

8.4

101,908

715515247719

| 1 disc

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

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	Aleksey Kravchenko	Flyora Gayshun
	Olga Mironova	Glasha
	Liubomiras Laucevicius	Kosach
	Vladas Bagdonas	Rubezh
	Jüri Lumiste	Obersturmführer
	Viktors Lorencs	Sturmbannführer
	Kazimir Rabetsky	Village Headman
	Evgeniy Tilicheev	Gezhel
	Aleksandr Berda	Chief of Staff of the Partisan Detachment
	G. Velts	German
	V. Vasilyev	German
	Igor Gnevashev	Yankel
	Vasiliy Domrachyov	Little Policeman
	G. Yelkin	Kid
	Evgeniy Kryzhanovskiy	Partisan with glasses
	N. Lisichenok
	Viktor Manaev	Partisan
	Takhir Matyullin	Elderly partisan
	Pyotr Merkurev	Partisan
	Valentin Mishatkin	Policeman
	Gennadiy Matytsky	Villager
	Yevgeniya Polyakova
	Anatoly Slivnikov	Partisan disguised as a German soldier
	Georgiy Strokov	Policeman
	Tatyana Shestakova	Flyora's Mother

Crew View all

Director	Elem Klimov
Writer	Ales Adamovich, Elem Klimov
Producer	Stepan Tereshchenko
Musician	Oleg YANCHENKO
Photography	Aleksei Rodionov

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Notes

Bought at the summer sale 2020 at B&N

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 Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei 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.

SPECIAL FEATURES

New 2K digital restoration by Mosfilm, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with cinematographer Roger Deakins
New interview with director Elem Klimov’s brother and frequent collaborator German Klimov
Flaming Memory, a three-film documentary series from 1975–77 by filmmaker Viktor Dashuk featuring firsthand accounts of survivors of the genocide in Belorussia during World War II
Interview from 2001 with Elem Klimov
Interviews from 2001 with actor Alexei Kravchenko and production designer Viktor Petrov
How “Come and See” Was Filmed, a 1985 short film about the making of the film featuring interviews with Elem Klimov, Kravchenko, and writer Ales Adamovich
Theatrical rerelease trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: Essays by critic Mark Le Fanu and poet Valzhyna Mort
New cover by Jaxon Northon

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