MOSCOW, 13 April (BelTA) – Director Elem Klimov's famous war film “Come and See” about the Nazi atrocities against the Belarusian population during the Great Patriotic War will be released in Russian theaters again. The film was restored by the Russian film studio Mosfilm, BelTA learned from the organizers of the screening.
“Come and See” was first released in theaters in 1985, timed to the 40th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. It won prizes at several major film festivals and placed sixth on the list of the most popular films in the Soviet Union in 1986, drawing the audience of 29,800. The Soviet Union nominated the film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, but the film did not get shortlisted.
The screenplay was co-written by Elem Klimov and Ales Adamovich. The story takes place in the territory of Belarus in 1943. The main character is the Belarusian boy Flyora who witnesses the atrocities of the Nazi punitive operation, turning from a happy teenager into a silver-haired old man in just two days. “The film is well-known for special effects used by Elem Klimov to fill viewers with horror and despair,” the organizers noted. “He used real projectiles during the filming. For the sake of safety, the film crew got cover behind a 1.5m-high and 5m-wide concrete slab during the shooting of scenes with tracer bullets. It is known that the tinnitus effect used in ‘Come and See' was also emulated by Steven Spielberg in his war drama ‘Saving Private Ryan',” they added.
The special screenings of “Come and See” will be held in Moscow's Oktyabr cinema on 2 May and in Saint Petersburg's Aurora cinema on 4 May. The organizer of the screening is the film magazine Iskusstvo Kino (Film Art) with the support of the Mosfilm studio.
