We Americans are strange in this way: showing strength by not taking things seriously results in TV shows like Hogan’s Heroes. Movies set during the conflict cease being issue-driven vows of resistance and vengeance, as the urge to create feel-good entertainment begins. Give any 20th-century war about fifteen years and its immediacy begins to fade. We see it all around us with children raised with no awareness of history, not even of what happened five years before they were born: “If it didn’t happen to me, it didn’t happen.” There are intolerable things that must seen and understood: the horrible lessons of the past fade quickly because each generation that follows has no contact.
In an interview, his brother German Klimov says that the movie was made from a book so appalling, it was considered by some to be unreadable… this is an unwatchable movie made from a book that was unreadable.
Soviet director Elem Klimov set out to tell the truth about wartime atrocities that in 1985 were a full forty years in the past. “If I am to treat this film with all gravity, then nobody will want to see this film.” Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Evgeniy Tilicheev, Viktors Lorencs, J¨ri Lumiste. available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date J/ 39.95 Although cinema gut-wrenchers have gone much further in the last 25 years, Kilmov’s unforgettable horrorshow rivets us through the haunted, paralyzed face of young actor Aleksei Kravchenko, who can scarcely process what he sees.ġ985 / Color / 1:37 / 143 min. The Politburo wanted a film to commemorate Victory Day, and director Elem Klimov gave them something nobody would forget. A young farm boy is a witness to and victim of horrendous barbarism inflicted on a civilian population… now the most common kind of terror. They have thrillers but this is something different.” He certainly got that right. The director of this unblinking account of the genocide in Belarus in 19 said that “people in America can’t watch my film.
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