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Jarmo Lundgren wrote:
> Hmmm... "Come and See" (btw, it should actually be "Come and Watch"
> to be faithful for the original title...)
I'll trust you on that; I had Russian in school for 9 years and barely
remember anything :)
> is maybe the only East-European war movie I've ever seen...
I'd recommend Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan's Childhood), A zori zdes tikhiye (The
Dawns Here Are Quiet), Voskhozhdeniye (Ascend), Sudba cheloveka
(A Man's Fate), Letjat zhuravli (The Cranes Are Flying) and Ballada o
soldate (Ballad Of A Soldier) as essential Soviet war movies.
And there's also Jakob der L�gner (only East German movie ever to get
nominated for an Academy Award) and Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt
from across the Iron Curtain.
You could also checkout www.imdb.com for more details about all those
films.
> (Unless you count Finland to Eastern Europe... ;)
On that note, I've heard pretty good things about a fairly recent Finnish
movie called 'The Winter War' or something like that.
>
> 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... ;)
Ah, so that's how he got his strange movie ideas! :)
> 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.
Damn, only saw it on TV so far :)
> >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...
The line "No animal got hurt during the making of this movie" surely
didn't show up in the credits.
> > 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...
His performance still is very impressive, though. Sometimes
the end does indeed justify the means.
> 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.
Speaking of Stalker, Tarkovsky was also the director 'Ivan's Childhood',
the only movie by him I've seen so far.
> Hmmm... What else has Elem Klimov filmed after Come and See? I guess
> that film was a rather heavy experience to him too...
This seems to be the case, because according to the Internet Movie Data
Base, Come and See was his last movie to date.
Cheers and all,
Hardy G.
"Farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells
Hail horrors hail"
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