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. Blu-ray special edition features • New 2K digital restoration by Mosfilm, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • 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.
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Excellent film
B**N
Spectacular. Encoded for both Regions A and B
This film is simply incredible. Criterion has done an amazing job restoring it to the highest possible quality and the supplementary material is also great.Films like this do not come along often. It immerses you into the horrors of war and feels as though you are experiencing it with the characters.But be warned - it is very harrowing so don't expect to be smiling afterwards.
B**B
Brilliant re-release
The Criterion relaease of this horrors-of-war classic can be recommended without reservation.I had the DVD years ago and this is a completely different class of home media. The 2K transfer sparkles, there are no artefacts as far as we could see on an HD screen, the sound is true and precise and the subtitles are clear and east to read. It was like watching a film on a screen in a good arthouse cinema, and there is no higher accolade than that.
M**S
Brutal film
I've been a big fan of this film since seeing it on UK TV about 10 years ago. This upgrade is amazing and looks so clean. Not a scratch on it. As well as that, this import bluray worked on my UK only bluray player without any fuss. I didn't even need to try it on my multi-region player - one that I bought so that I could buy this disc!
M**D
This was a russian war film!
This film was made by Russian film company in the mid 1980s.It is not really about lots of action world war 2 scenes, instead the story focuses on a boy where we see development of his character in the first half of the film. then starting from the middle it does get into a bit world war 2 story where we see a large group of German soldiers enter a village and massacre everyone in it and burning down things everywhere they go. The boy in the in film is a witness to all of what the German's have done. It's got quite a few bloody scenes in it, i think they have a dubbed version of this on the DVD , so no reading is required.
J**E
Cinematic masterpiece
Amazing film. Absolute must watch if your into ww2 or just great cinema. Great service from the seller too.
P**R
Worth The Wait
I've waited years for a remastered blu ray version (i have two dvd versions, the picture quality is no better than VHS), and it was worth the wait. One of the greatest (anti) war films ever made now has the picture quality to really show off its brilliance. The last 50 minutes has to be seen to be believed, a truly devastating indictment of the horrors that man can inflict on fellow humans.
J**E
Terrible Copy
Scratched copy, unwatchable after 1hr 29 mins
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