Idi i smotri (1985)

Director:

Elem Klimov

Writers:

Ales Adamovich (screenplay)
Ales Adamovich (stories)
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Release Date:

17 October 1985 (Hungary)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot:

A boy is unwillingly thrust into the atrocities of war in WWII Byelorussia, fighting for a hopelessly...

Plot Keywords:

WWII | Atrocity | Byelorussia | German Soldier | Airplane

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Aleksei Kravchenko	...	Florya Gaishun (as A. Kravchenko)
Olga Mironova	...	Glasha (as O. Mironova)
Liubomiras Lauciavicius	...	Kosach (as L. Lautsyavichius)
Vladas Bagdonas		(as V. Bagdonas)
Jüri Lumiste
Viktor Lorents		(as V. Lorents)
Kazimir Rabetsky		(as K. Rabetsky)
Yevgeni Tilicheyev		(as Ye. Tilicheyev)
Aleksandr Berda		(as A. Berda)
G. Velts
V. Vasilyev
Igor Gnevashev		(as I. Gnevashev)
Vasili Domrachyov		(as V. Domrachyov)
G. Yelkin
Ye. Kryzhanovsky
N. Lisichenok
Vladimir Manayev		(as V. Manayev)
Takhir Matyullin		(as T. Matyulin)
Pyotr Merkuryev		(as P. Merkuryev)
Valentin Mishatkin		(as V. Mishatkin)
G. Matytsky
Yevgeniya Polyakova		(as Ye. Polyakova)
Anatoli Slivnikov		(as A. Slivnikov)
Georgi Strokov		(as G. Strokov)
Tatyana Shestakova		(as T. Shestakova)
Oleg Shapko		(as O. Shapko)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage)

Directed by
Elem Klimov		(as E. Klimov)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ales Adamovich		screenplay (as A. Adamovich)
Ales Adamovich		stories (as A. Adamovich)
Elem Klimov		screenplay (as E. Klimov)

Original Music by
Oleg Yanchenko		(as O. Yanchenko)

Cinematography by
Aleksei Rodionov		(as A. Rodionov)

Film Editing by
Valeriya Belova		(as V. Belova)

Production Design by
Viktor Petrov		(as V. Petrov)

Art Direction by
Viktor Petrov		(as V. Petrov)

Set Decoration by
Viktor Petrov		(as V. Petrov)

Costume Design by
Eleonora Semyonova		(as E. Semyonova)

Makeup Department
V. Bolotnikov	....	makeup artist
S. Mikhlina	....	makeup artist
A. Zhurba	....	makeup artist

Production Management
S. Tereshchenko	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
N. Grakina	....	assistant director
I. Levandovskaya	....	assistant director
Afanasiy Trishkin	....	assistant director (as A. Trishkin)

Sound Department
Viktor Mors	....	sound engineer (as V. Mors)

Special Effects by
N. Andreyev	....	pyrotechnician
Ya. Goldman	....	pyrotechnician
Albert Rudachenko	....	special effects coordinator (as A. Rudachenko)
V. Zemnokha	....	pyrotechnician
Viktor Zhanov	....	special effects operator (as V. Zhanov)

Camera and Electrical Department
B. Galper	....	camera operator
K. Klimin	....	assistant camera
N. Zuyev	....	assistant camera

Music Department
Mina Blank	....	music editor (as M. Blank)

Other crew
P. Gutenko	....	military advisor
Anatoli Kudryavtsev	....	script supervisor (as A. Kudryavtsev)
Yu. Oksachenko	....	trainee production administrator
V. Ponochevnyi	....	production administrator
Ada Repina	....	script supervisor (as A. Repina)
Z. Rogozovskaya	....	production administrator

Production Companies

• Mosfilm
• Belarusfilm

Distributors

• Sovexportfilm (1985) (worldwide) (all media)
• Sandrew Film & Teater (1986) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Seagull Films (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Shochiku-Fuji Company (1987) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Unidoc (1987) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb (1986) (East Germany) (theatrical)
• Divisa Home Video (2008) (Spain) (DVD)
• Empresa Hispanoamericana de Video (EHV) (????) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Globo Vídeo (Brazil) (video)
• Happinet (2001) (Japan) (DVD)
• Icestorm Entertainment (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
• International Film Exchange (IFEX) (1987) (USA) (subtitled)
• International Visual Corporation (2005) (Japan) (DVD)
• Kino Video (????) (USA) (DVD)
• Lume Filmes (2008) (Brazil) (DVD)
• New Star (2009) (Greece) (all media)
• Njutafilms (2005) (Sweden) (DVD)
• RUSCICO (2004) (worldwide) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Come and See (UK) (USA)
Иди и смотри (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Come and See... (Australia) (video box title)
Go and Look (International: English title) (literal title)
Go and See

Runtime:

142 min | Argentina:146 min | Germany:146 min | USA:140 min

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Belarusian | Russian | German

Colour:

Black and White (archive footage) | Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:15 | France:U | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16

Company:

Mosfilm

Trivia:

This movie's title is derived from The Bible's New Testament. It is from Chapter 6 in the Book of Revelation (aka The Apocalypse of John aka The Revelation of St John the Divine aka The Revelation of St John). It reads: "And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Several Germans can be see wielding MP or STG 44's which were not in service until summer 1944 (this film is set in 1943).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in 50 Films to See Before You Die (2006) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Die Walküre

charnel house in occupied Belarussia

I saw this movie many years ago and scenes still remain imprinted on my mind. Though it was still made in the USSR, in was made when the winds of glasnost were starting to well and truly blow. The movie whilst still sticking to the maxim that the Soviets were the good guys, nevertheless portrays the casual brutality of partisan warfare in a realistic unromantic way.

The SS "action" in the Belarussian village is one of the most disturbing depictions of the second world war ever directed outside of the real footage of these things. The SS troops are on a anti-partisan operation and enter the Belarussian village. The next 10-15 minutes remained in my memory for many years after. Though the suffering of the occupied peoples under Nazi's was often used for pro-Soviet propaganda in art and film, even if it was the case in this film, the sheer horror of these scenes transcends the political.

2 scenes are particularly powerful in this section of the film:

The scene were the SS officer lunches in a village hut, in front of a cowering peasant family, desperate to placate the soldiers, is quite terrifying and suspenseful and all the more effective for the violence that does eventually occur.

Secondly, at the end of the slaughter,the Nazi soldiers are seen laughing carry out on a bed an old bedridden blind babushka lady from a burning farmhouse. They make some horrible joke about saving her to be a breeder, and as the village burns behind her she is observed blindly staring into the smoke filled sky full of incomphrehensible terror.

From memory the movie does lapse into propaganda abit heavily at the end. Nevertheless at the end of the film the credits list the number of Belarussian villages destroyed (buildings and people)....I cant remember the exact number but it was hundreds and it is quite a sobering figure....regardless of the Soviet spin the film is valuable in shining a light into a dark corner of mans inhumanity to fellow man.