Released 45 years ago, this is the ten largest war films of all time and you are not really ready to see it

In its duration, its intensity, on its planetary scale, in the terrible magnitude of its destruction, in the genocide and industrial dimension of its mass crimes, World War II has always been a fertile ground for cinema that never stops drawing in it. We no longer consider it- and this is a happy number of masterpieces of war films that make this conflict framework.

If the American Cinema has logically and often reduced the lion’s share of the industrial number of fiction, of course, produced works elsewhere, which left a lasting trace of viewers’ cinnamon memory. Among them, a 1985 Russian film: Goes and Watches, otherwise known as a detailed massacre -jelet, from El El Klimov.

And there is so much to say without a bypass: nothing you have seen before, you have prepared this hallucinatory film, intensity and incredible cruelty; Sometimes even on a sustained edge. A work that no one else is like and it would be impossible to do so. And he will not win his stripes as a cult film that deserves widespread.

Barbarization of inhuman occupation

For the massacre, there is already a very precise framework that is going on with the whole mediocre tragic course of its story: Belarusian German occupation in 1941 and 1944, on absolute barbarism. The Nazis expelled 380,000 people in the area, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.

It is estimated that during World War II more than 9,000 villages were burnt or robbed in Belarus. More than 600 villages were completely shaved and their inhabitants were massacred. In total, 2,230,000 people, quarters of the population, died in Belarus during the three years of German occupation, including 600,000 to 800,000, between Belarusian Ghetos Jews during World War II.

Mass killings and massacres that have been largely terrible Einsatzgruppen; Literally the intervention groups, which were the mobile unit of destruction of the Third Reich, taking into account the systematic murder of real opponents or the Nazi regime, in the back of the eastern front in the occupied territories.

In 1943, based on the testimony of the survivors of the Belarus the Nazis, the massacre -script revealed a vision of a war named Fiora, a young Belarusian boy occupied by Nazi troops.

He is faithful, though very young, among the supporters. With the energy and idealism of the child, he commits the horror of the world that goes beyond adults. Wandering and quarreling, Fiora becomes a witness to all the horrors of war …

“I was very strong impressions for this hell”

The film was successful for the Soviet society in its time, as it recalled the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory during World War II – convergence of cinema and history that would not happen if Klimov was able to make a film seven years ago as planned. It was that it was always necessary to deal with the obligations of Tatilon and sometimes the Soviet authorities, censorship …

“I felt guilty that I didn’t get my movie about war.” Said Klimov in the interview. “In fact, I am a native person of Stalingrad, a child who, of course, knew bombing, crossing the Volga, sping to the Ural. I was very strong impressions of this period.

And to explain why the Soviet authorities demanded that his film changed the title, to become “to go and look.” “When this scenario was born, it was called” murder Hitler “. But later, seven years old after returning to this topic, we were told that the word” Hitler “should be avoided.

Then I prayed for my brother to leave the gospel a little. So he opened the apocalypse passage. And he encountered a lamb, which opens the first seal and thunder -the sound of a leitmotif: “Go and look.” It is repeated four times. ”

“It was a terribly difficult role, these situations that were bordered by wearing”

To say that his very young artist, Alex Kravchenko, has been delivering hallucinations from the age of 14, and outside the usual composition, is still euphemism. He was never shot before Klimov’s film.

When you see what this young teenager and emotional charge are going on, it would simply be impossible to turn it into such conditions today. Among the explosions that break down the peaks of the forest trees, the real machine guns that move 10 cm into the head, without counting the marshy, which failed to do so, it was a nine -month -old shooting for him and the team. What comes out of it was constantly marked and even traumatized. However, the young boy’s devotion to his role and filmmaker will be absolute.

“It was a terribly difficult role, these situations that were bordered by wearing” Said Klimov. He knew that he had done his young actor with live experience, which was possible, and Klimov even brought him a hypnotist.

“With it, we have developed a whole system of defense, tests, detection..

While taking Alexis Kravchenko, the shooting of a terrible sequence, where the villagers were stopped in the village church before it burned, it was the extreme edge that he could. And when we see what the sequence is said, it’s already a lot …

“This is half the crazy movie”

The great admirer of the film, because he particularly discovered it when he was confidential in France at the time, Nicolas Bukhrif wrote about him a Rave article in the late Starfix Magazine.

“Only Kubrik is that gave me this type of cinematographic ecstasy.” According to him, in an interview published during the release of the DVD in France. “The film is so violent, especially in situations that he overcame his hero that it was inconvenient for the press. The film was very impressive for criticism at the time.” He said that he emphasized that the massacre -script Requiem was almost overlooked here. “I think this is especially due to the fact that we were still in the middle of the Cold War that it was seen as a large propaganda film that is also partially partially.” He continues.

“This is half a crazy film because the artwork could have been Aguirre of God’s anger Or Revelation now. This is the latest Klimov’s film and this is not surprising. This is a movie that we will not go back ” He adds.

The filmmaker really doesn’t say anything. “After this movie, I didn’t want to do another one. He admitted. Add his main interpreter: “Thank God, Alex Kravchenko, this baby, was not mad. ” We would make much less than that …

The seminar film, which has been celebrated by all generations of filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg himself, and those who continue to do so, the massacre for the Requiem – goes and the watches are absolutely unique and unusual. You know what to do if you have never seen this unusual movie before.