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A real war film , 23 August 2008
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Come And See
(2 discs)
on DVD (1985)
Starring: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Director: Elem Klimov
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This is an extraordinary film. Brutal, savage and horrific, but nonetheless extraordinary. If you're looking for a shoot 'em up war movie, don't even think about it. This is what war is actually like. The protagonists are not heroes or even antiheroes, simply people caught in a murderous and utterly unforgiving world that provides no sanctuary or comfort and where the only logic available is provided by the need to stop those who perpetrate the savagery visited upon one's own people.
It is hard to believe anyone could be so ludicrous as to criticise this film for not portraying the whole picture of WWII on the Russian front. It's not trying to do that. The film is from the Byelorussian experience and therefore necessarily partial. Ultimately, though, it is about the utter horror of war and it is almost irrelevant which side is perpetrating the horror. To miss that point is to fail to understand anything about it.
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