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Come and See (1985) (Criterion Collection)

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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 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 it's script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.

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Director Elem Klimov
Actor Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Label CRITERION
 
Genre Drama
War
Content DVD
Publication date 30.06.2020
Edition Criterion Collection
Audio original language with subtitle (Dolby Digital)
Subtitles English
Screen 16/9
Year of production 1985
Original title Idi i smotri
Version US Version
Region code 1
 

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  • DER Anti-Kriegsfilm

    Written on 27. April 2021 by Loris.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

  • Heftig!

    Written on 30. May 2009 by spacecowboy.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Einer der besten Kriegsfilme, vielleicht der beste Kriegsfilm aller Zeiten.
    Dieses Meisterwerk mit Hollywood-Muell wie dem kriegsverherrlichendem "Saving Private Ryan" zu vergleichen ist schon fast Blasphemie.

  • no special edition

    Written on 02. August 2007 by s.m.m..
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    ist leider nicht, wie auf dem cover zu erkennen, die special edition. ich bin trotzdem sehr gespannt.

  • krieg=hölle

    Written on 25. September 2003 by combatwoundedveteran.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    dieser film zeigt den absoluten horror des krieges in keine anderem anti-kriegs film wird das so traumatisch und schonungs los gezeigt. krieg ist sch.eisse!!!!

  • Meisterwerk

    Written on 22. September 2003 by Dorian.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Der beste Anti-Kriegsfilm aller Zeiten!

  • Traumatisch

    Written on 28. July 2003 by Andycab.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Dieser Film ist absolut traumatisch... Realismus pur... und das über 10 Jahre vor "Saving Private Ryan"
    Ein Meisterwerk das mit kleinem Budget zu Soviet-Zeiten gedreht wurde .

  • Come and see

    Written on 26. November 2003 by TeD.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Le meilleur film de guerre que j'aie jamais vu !!! Le vrai visage de la bestialité humaine. Il enterre toutes les productions hollywoodiennes par la "crudité" du propos et son absence de manichéisme. A voir d'urgence !!!

  • Traumatischer Film

    Written on 28. December 2002 by Andreas Zeller.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Völlig traumatischer Kriegsfilm über die gräuel der SS und Wehrmacht in Weissrussland. Was Klimov 1986 in sachen Realismus rüberbrachte, konnte Hollywood erst 1998 mit Saving private Ryan umsetzen.
    Der Film bietet aber kein Krigs-Action a la Holywood, sondern er zeigt den überlebenskampf eines Teenager Jungen in diesem Alptraum.

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