DVD
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- OSHTEMO: Audiovisual Collection
Come and see = Idi i smotri
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN, OSH)
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In Belarusian, Russian, and German, with English subtitles.
Performers
Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (142 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : color illustration ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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 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.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; new interview with cinematographer Roger Deakins ; new interview with director Elem Kilmov's brother and frequent collaborator German Kilmov ; three 1975 films from Flaming Memory, a documentary series by Viktor Dashuk featuring firsthand accounts of survivors of the genodice during World War II in what is now known as Belarus ; interview from 2001 with Elem Kilmov ; interviews from 2001 with actor Alexei Kravchenko and production designer Viktor Petrov ; The story of the film "Come and See," a 1985 short film featuring interviews with Kilmov, Kravchenko, and writer Ales Adamovich ; theatrical rerelease trailer.