Few extracts from "Come and See", with Eng subtitles

[Bolt]

Hello.

I've taken few fragments from a movie called "Idi i smotri" or "Come and See" and put them on youtube. Also I've tried to translate them to English, but made some mistakes (grammar, that is, it was too late to change them), also, in some parts (at the beginning) I couldn't understand what were they saying (people in this movie talk in Byelorussian villager's dialect), but I hope you will get the main idea of the dialogs.

Part one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNEJ7qe1l8o
Part two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFk-yOQee2U
Part three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GBbaNttw3A
Part four http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSj0RmB1tu4
Part five http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0NS_1Zo8Zc

 

[Nestor Makhno]

...and at no point has copyright been breached?

BTW - how old was that actor?

 

[Bolt]

It was completely breached from the very start, when I've found this version of the movie in my net.
However, are you sure that all those videos of SPR, EatG, Iron Cross, Liberation, BHD or whatever youtube video of a movie was posted here don't break the copyright?
I'm giving only small about of the movie, I haven't put it whole on the rapidshare or any other sites? If people will like it, they will go and buy a licensed copy (not from me). I don't see any problem here.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

I was joking - but my question about the actor remains - it is weird - he looks like a 13 year old with a 55-year old's eyes.

 

[Shurek]

The actor's name is Alexei Kravchenko and I think he was about 14 or 15 when the film was made. He's gone on as an adult to star in some of Russia's bigger TV series and films: namely the Spetsnaz series, and also the biggest TV mini-series of all time in Russia - Brigada.

They did a great job in aging him throughout the course of the story using makeup. By the end of the movie, he looks about 80, but in a 12 year-old's body.

Today:

 

[Nestor Makhno]

OMG - that film, Spetsnaz II, looks like it would make your average Chuck Norris movie seem high-concept and arty!

 

[Bone saw]

That's quite an interessting document from the history of propaganda in the Soviet Union. Thx for sharing it, Bolt.

 

[Shadrach]

Thank you Bolt.
I've been looking for this movie but unable to find one with subtitles.

Some very strong scenes in there.

-S

 

[PNV]

Indeed, the scene in the beginning was very sad

 

[Reddog]

This movie sure is a cinematic gut punch the first time you see it, one of my all time favourites in the war movie genre even though it can be so hard to watch.

I used to have an avi version with the subtitles but I lost it ages ago, might buy it one day.

 

[JAKL]

It's definitely an interesting movie with some definite WTF moments. Overall the crap this kid goes through in the movie is astounding. If you are a Blockbuster online subscriber, they have a version with English subtitles which is how I ended up watching it. It's not necessarily action packed I'd say but more of an Odyssey for the main character with bits of action here and there.

 

[Feldwebel Crin]

I managed to find Idi i Smotri at Moviestop around a year ago, it really is a great movie. In fact, it's in the book 100 Movies to See Before You Die. I think they call it the quintessential World War 2 movie.

I remember the German loudspeaker in that first clip, broadcasting "Germany is a Civilized Nation!"

 

[Reddog]

Yeah for sure I'd say it deserves it's place in that list.

I also don't really understand Bone Saw referring to it as propoganda, I'd advise him to go and google einsatzgruppen before making such statements.

 

[Bone saw]

So what?
I know what the "Einsatzgruppen" were but this work is obvisouly propagandistic. This thread is about a movie and so was my statement and where did I deny any crimes that happend in that era of history, as you trying to interpret it this way?

 

[Silky_Slim]

When that girl came up with the bloody thighs, i thought for a moment that he was going to clean her up with that roll of cloth he used for his rifle.

 

[Polygon]

I tried watching it twice and I thought the movie was awful- dodgy acting with the actors behaving more like mental patients, laughable attempts at effects (how about that plane in the beginning). For whatever reason, some people have been raving about this movie, but I personally find very little to say positive about it.

My two cents.

 

[Reddog]

So what?
I know what the "Einsatzgruppen" were but this work is obvisouly propagandistic. This thread is about a movie and so was my statement and where did I deny any crimes that happend in that era of history, as you trying to interpret it this way?

OK my bad, I misinterpreted what you meant.

Personally I think it's a movie that had to be made because so few people even know about what went on in the German occupied east.

 

[Shurek]

I tried watching it twice and I thought the movie was awful- dodgy acting with the actors behaving more like mental patients, laughable attempts at effects (how about that plane in the beginning). For whatever reason, some people have been raving about this movie, but I personally find very little to say positive about it.

My two cents.

I'd agree that the movie is very stylistic in it's approach, and the behavior of certain characters approaches overt hystery. Seems like a Soviet filmmaker's response to Apocolypse Now in a lot of ways...

As for the effects, I agree with the obseravtion about the cheesy airplane (was that a Cessna standing in for a Me-109?). However, what about the scene when the kid and the partizan are taking cover behind the cow?...looks like it REALLY was hit by tracer fire, or when the kid and the girl are in the forest and the Gerry's start shelling the trees, right before the Fallshirmjager start to drop? I woulda @#$@# my pants

 

[Nlogax]

Actually, it REALLY was hit by tracer.

Live ammunition was used in this scene, and in an interview, the actor Aleksei Kravchenko has described actual bullets passing some 10 centimeters above his head.

 

[WickedPenguin]

They did really machine gun that cow. Over here, PETA would be having a fit. In Soviet Russia, they'd be having steak.