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>I'll trust you on that; I had Russian in school for 9 years
Me too...
> and barely remember anything :)
Well, my Russian is poor too... I _almost_ understand, when someone
speaks Russian, but not _quite_. It's frustrating... I really haven't
needed the language ever. Maybe that's why it has gotten so poor...
The only time I really spoke Russian was when I was robbed in St.
Petersburg (*) and I was in the militia station. (And even then, I
_should've_ talked only English...)
Anyhow, "Come and See" should be "Idi i vidi" in Russian to mean the
same as the English title. It's "Idi i smotri", so it should be "Come
and Watch"...
>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.
Okay... ;)
I just noticed that "My Friend Ivan Lapshkin" (1982, Aleksei German)
is on the autumn programme of the local film club. Gotta see that
again. A very good film. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084345
The film tells about a cop in Stalin's Soviet Union. Not a happy
movie, I can assure you... ;) The interesting detail in the shootings
of the film were those buildings (lousy barracks) where people lived
in the film.
Some soviet bureaucrat asked German, why he had to shoot the film in
some dirty, lousy barracks. The obvious answer was of course, that
people lived in dirty lousy barracks in fourties Soviet Union (and
mostly still lived in eighties (an they probably live in lousy
conditions in today's Russia too...)). German didn't answer that to
the question, however... (It happened before perestroika. I think the
film was banned, or was it some other movie by the same director?)
The buildings were torn down immediately after the shootings. Some
mining establishment was to be build on the place, or something like
that...
>On that note, I've heard pretty good things about a fairly recent Finnish
>movie called 'The Winter War' or something like that.
Haven't seen it. Anyhow, it was made for the fiftieth memorable day
of Finnish Winter War (1939), or something like that... So, don't
expect too much criticism from the movie... Probably "Good and brave
Finnish soldiers against evil, dirty Russians".
>The line "No animal got hurt during the making of this movie" surely
>didn't show up in the credits.
Hmmm... I just hope he didn't kill for real those village people in
that "boy returns to home" scene...
>Speaking of Stalker, Tarkovsky was also the director 'Ivan's Childhood',
>the only movie by him I've seen so far.
Oh... Must be one of his older movies...
>This seems to be the case, because according to the Internet Movie Data
>Base, Come and See was his last movie to date.
Not surprising...
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(*) I was robbed by another cops, btw...
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