Come and See (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Klimov co-wrote the screenplay with Ales Adamovich, who fought with the Belarusian partisans as a teenager. According to the director's recollections, work on the film began in 1977: Klimov’s answer to that comes at the finish, which I won’t spoil. A sudden stylistic gear-shift throws the film into a reverse-apocalyptic montage worthy of Kuleshov or Pudovkin, that manages to express some of the author’s intention not just to kill Hitler, but to kill the Hitler demon inside of each of us. a b c Noah, Will (10 January 2018). "Elem Klimov's Boundary-Pushing Satires". The Criterion Collection . Retrieved 11 November 2018. Criterion includes the film’s original Russian monaural presentation in lossless PCM. Criterion has not ported over the 5.1 surround remix that was found on the previous Kino and RusCiCo DVDs. Elem Klimov (SD, 21 Mins.) This 2001 interview has Director Klimov discussing making Come and See, the difficulties and detail that went into it, as well as his own experiences during WWII. This is in Russian with English subtitles.

a b c d e Egorova, Tatiana K. (1997). Soviet Film Music. An Historical Survey. Translated by Tatiana A. Ganf and Natalia Aleksandrovna Egunova. Reading, Berkshire: Harwood Academic Publishers. p. 243. ISBN 978-3-718-65910-4. German Klimov (HD, 27 Mins.) - This brand new candid interview is with Elem's brother as he talks about growing up with the director, WWII, and his filmography, including this one. He sheds some light on how Elem worked, his choice of productions, and more. This was filmed in 2020 specifically for this release in Russian with English subtitles.

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a b Ramsey, Nancy (28 January 2001). "FILM; They Prized Social, Not Socialist, Reality". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018 . Retrieved 17 July 2020. Initial reception was positive. Walter Goodman wrote for The New York Times that "The history is harrowing and the presentation is graphic... Powerful material, powerfully rendered...", and dismissed the ending as "a dose of instant inspirationalism," but conceded to Klimov's "unquestionable talent." [45] Rita Kempley, of The Washington Post, wrote that "directing with an angry eloquence, [Klimov] taps into that hallucinatory nether world of blood and mud and escalating madness that Francis Ford Coppola found in Apocalypse Now. And though he draws a surprisingly vivid performance from his inexperienced teen lead, Klimov's prowess is his visual poetry, muscular and animistic, like compatriot Andrei Konchalovsky's in his epic Siberiade." [46] Mark Le Fanu wrote in Sight & Sound that Come and See is a "powerful war film... The director has elicited an excellent performance from his central actor Kravchenko". [47]

The director’s brother, German Klimov, also records a new interview, running 27-minutes. He covers some of the same ground that his brother did in the other interview (including how the title Come and Seecame about, though it differs a bit here) but expands on many details, like the events that led up to the film finally being made, and then production specific things like filming the barn sequence, where they ended up using locals who were probably around when the actual events happened. He then closes off discussing his brother’s heading of the Soviet Filmmakers Union.Hoberman, J. (30 January 2001). "High Lonesome". The Village Voice. New York City . Retrieved 25 February 2014. And such is war; the bombardment of their temporary idyllic setting comes swiftly and loudly, along with the Nazis out of the sky. Death from above, and it's here before you'll ever be able to react.