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>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.
Hmmm... "Come and See" (btw, it should actually be "Come and Watch"
to be faithful for the original title...) is maybe the only
East-European war movie I've ever seen... (Unless you count Finland
to Eastern Europe... ;)
>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.
Back in times of Soviet Union, there used to be a movie theater in
Helsinki that showed only soviet movies. I never of course was there
- I was a kid back then - but Aki Kaurism�ki told in some interview
that it was a good place to drink a bottle of wine and watch some
Eisenstein classics while drinking... ;)
I'm a lucky guy: I saw "Potemkin" in a theater a couple of years ago.
What a movie! It's like a full-length music video. It just rocks.
>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,
What??? Scaring...
> and that the
>boy at times had to be hypnotized before and after difficult scenes in order
>to maintain his mental balance.
This explains a lot! I've always wondered, how did the director get
the boy into that kind of frenzy... I thought that he just was a
genius for an actor...
BTW, a friend of claimed, that the girl in Stalker really had
telekinetic powers. He said that the scenes where she moves the glass
of water with her mind, were'nt faked.
> 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.
Yeah!
Hmmm... What else has Elem Klimov filmed after Come and See? I guess
that film was a rather heavy experience to him too...
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