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Jarmo Lundgren wrote:
> >the russian director elem klimov once (early eighties that is)
>
> I think it was mid-eighties. The film was rather new, when I saw it
> the first time in 1987 (in DDR, btw, dubbed in German... ;).
I think the movie's from 1985. I saw the dubbed version once on
East German TV (btw, back then this picture was also used as teaching
material about Nazism at some East German schools and institutions),
and the original version twice- some months ago on ARTE, and shortly after
that on another German channel, where they showed a series of classic East
German and Soviet war movies.
The respective TV channel still has the movie archives of ye olde
East German television at its disposal, and they provide basically the only
chance to see films like Voina i Mir, Anna Karenina or Ivan's Childhood
these days on German TV.
> >about 2nd world war with no music at all. it was kinda crushing, because
> >you had this real-war-feeling: never know what to expect. no music
> >predicting events.
>
> There are some scenes with brilliant sound use. Like, when after
> bombing you don't hear anything else but wheezing for many minutes.
> And, when the main character visits his home in some quiet moment of
> the war, you hear mainly the buzz of flies when he walks into the
> house. The house is empty and the buzz rises. The boy (main
> character) leaves the house and you see the cause of all those flies:
> the whole village is slaughtered behind the house. You see only about
> three seconds the bodies, but it feels much worse than any gore movie
> with violence close-ups... It's the oppressing feeling in the empty
> house, that does the trick...
One of the most disturbing war movies ever, I'd say. When ARTE
broadcast the movie they also showed a feature about it, with Klimov and
the young man who played the boy getting interviewed. Klimov said they did
actually use live ammo during that scene where a German machine gun fires
tracer bullets closely over the boy's head into a living cow, and that the
boy at times had to be hypnotized before and after difficult scenes in order
to maintain his mental balance. The boy himself (now married and a father)
didn't do any other movies before or after Idi i smotri, and he stated he
barely remembers details of the shoot, which is probably a good thing.
Cheers and all,
Hardy G.
"Farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells
Hail horrors hail"
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