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8.2/10 • 1.6K

1985-10-172h 22m

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The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

Directors
Elem Klimov
Editors
Valeriya Belova

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  1. Aleksei Kravchenko

    Aleksei Kravchenko

    Flyora Gayshun

  2. Olga Mironova

    Olga Mironova

    Glasha

  3. Liubomiras Laucevicius

    Liubomiras Laucevicius

    Kosach

  4. Vladas Bagdonas

    Vladas Bagdonas

    Rubezh

  5. Jüri Lumiste

    Jüri Lumiste

    Obersturmführer

  6. Viktors Lorencs

    Viktors Lorencs

    Sturmbannführer

  7. Kazimir Rabetsky

    Kazimir Rabetsky

    Village Headman

  8. Yevgeni Tilicheyev

    Yevgeni Tilicheyev

    Gezhel

  9. Aleksandr Berda

    Aleksandr Berda

    Chief of Staff of the Partisan Detachment

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CinemaSerf

Sep 3, 2023

7/10

This has got to be the perfect antidote to the Hollywood treatment of a war film. It's bleak, grim and repulsive - and all in a great, intentional, cinematographic fashion. The thread centres around the young "Flyora" (a superb effort from Aleksey Kravchenko) who is taken from his Belorussian family farm at gunpoint (along with anything it's possible to eat) by the invading Nazi troops. What now ensues follows this young man as he escapes his captors, finds an old rifle and determines to join up with the communists who are fighting almost insurmountable odds to thwart their encroaching, heavily armed, foe. What really resonates here is the simplicity of the production. There are no specials effects, no CGI to create many when there are few - it tells the simplest of stories in a manner that is truly brutal at times, then truly evocative at others. Man's inhumanity to man and all that - but writ large and depicting an invading army devoid of any semblance of humanity on just about every level. The experiences of this young man are truly horrific, but the presentation here is not especially graphic - though it's not for the faint hearted. We are shown what is happening, but Elem Klimov leaves plenty of scope for our own imagination to augment, if that is actually possible, the true grotesqueness of war, of random killings and destruction and all quite possibly exacerbated by the fact that the conquerors had no real idea what they were doing, or why - the film almost imbues them with the characteristics of the wildest of animals who enjoy their regime of torture and malevolence for the sake of it. The ending has a certain degree of vindication about it - but oddly enough it's not especially satisfying. The emotional exhaustion of the viewer has long since set in, and the true fate of what I can only really call these uniformed bullies is just, yet somehow inadequate. The film is gently paced, it could almost be a video diary as young "Flyora" meets and hides from those he encounters and we share his fears and risks en route. This is really well worth a watch but it's not an easy one.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Budget
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Revenue
$20,929,648.00
Keywords
naziwar crimesinsanityworld war iisurrealismwehrmachtteenage girlatrocitygenociderussian armymine fieldhorrors of warpremature agingbyelorussiachildren in wartime