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Sep 5, 2014 · Released in 1985 to critical acclaim, Elem Klimov’s “Come and See” is not an underrated film – those who see it are quick to recognize its excellence. It is, however, a criminally underseen one, most likely because of where and when it was made (more on that later).
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Mar 6, 2020 · “Come and See,” Elem Klimov’s 1985 masterpiece of hallucinatory realism, was originally conceived under the title “Kill Hitler,” and with good reason.
Mar 2, 2020 · No one who has watched Come and See, Elem Klimov’s legendary 1985 anti-war film, can forget the horrors at its climax. The entire movie is memorable: a nightmare manifested into reality, or...
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- They Used Live Ammunition During Filming
- The Audio Quality of The Movie Changes
- The Actor Playing Florya Went Through Hell
- Director Klimov Tried Hypnosis on Florya
- Come and See’s Picture Quality Is Dark and Gritty
- The Film’S Name Was Originally Kill Hitler
- Klimov Himself Experienced WWII
- Belarus Suffered More Than Any Country in WWII
- Spoiler – The Barn Scene Really Happened
Throughout the filming of Come and See, real bullets were used. At times, they flew just above the heads of actors, making their terrified looks genuine. And the scene where machine gun fire takes down a cow – that really happened.
After a nightmarish bombing scene, the main character, Florya, is deafened. Watching the movie, you’ll hear how the sound becomes muted and there is a faint ringing noise. On top of that, for the rest of Come and See, the audio quality drops – helping us enter the horrifying world on screen.
Aleksey Kravchenko, the teenage actor who played Florya, really went through hell while filming. Director, Elem Klimov, shot Come and Seein chronological order over a nine-month period. Comparing Kravchenko’s appearance from start to end of the film reflects what he went through. Kravchenko begins Come and Seeas a youthful, healthy boy. He ends it ...
Director, Elem Klimov, tried to have a psychotherapist hypnotize Kravchenko before the most violent scenes in Come and See. He was worried that these dreadful experiences would addle his young mind. As Klimov said in an interview (available on YouTube), “[Kravchenko’s acting] could have had a very sad ending. He could have landed in an insane asylu...
Come and Seewas shot entirely with natural lighting. Because of this, scenes shot in naturally darker locations, like in the forests, were captured with a faster-than-normal film stock. The result is that the film picture is dark and grainy. This gritty quality of the film pairs well with the grim subject matter it covers.
Originally, the movie was to be titled Kill Hitler. However, this was deemed inappropriate at the time. Instead, Klimov chose the title, Come and See, coming from the sixth chapter of the Book of Revelation. That bleak bible passage ends with the line: “For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” (Revelation 6:17 KJV).
Born and raised in Stalingrad, Elem Klimov was evacuated from the city as a boy, while the infamous WWII battle there was raging. In interviews, he confirmed that his wartime experience influenced Come and See. On top of that, his co-scriptwriter, Ales Adamovich, experienced WWII not dissimilarly from Come and See’s Florya. During WWII, Adamovich w...
Most people know that the Soviet Union had the greatest loss of life of any other nation during WWII. However, not everyone realizes that the worst hit Soviet republic in percentage terms was Belarus. According to Russian historian Vadim Erlikman’s book, Poteri narodonaseleniia v XX veke («Потери народонаселения в XX веке», or “Population loss in t...
Of all the shocking scenes in Come and See, the one that strains credulity the most is the horrifying church burning sequence. An SS brigade, with the help of local collaborators, rounds up an entire village into a church and burns them alive. However horrifying the sequence is, it contains no embellishment or exaggeration. This type of atrocity by...
Feb 16, 2020 · Not so in Elem Klimov’s 1985 film Come and See, in which relentless bombings and frenetic camerawork shatter the Belarusian countryside into an incoherent, fabulistic geography, and the invading Germans appear to coalesce out of the fog on the horizon like menacing apparitions.
Jun 16, 2010 · No one would ever make the mistake of saying that about Elem Klimov’s “Come and See.” This 1985 film from Russia is one of the most devastating films ever about anything, and in it, the survivors must envy the dead.
Aug 30, 2022 · Mosfilm. In "Come and See," Flyora's mother begs him not to leave home, but the smiley young man reasons that everybody's going off to war, so he must do so, too. Early on, the resistance...
