IiS-Fans: WHERE DO YOU COME FROM AND HOW OLD ARE YOU?
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originaltbyrd — 17 years ago(February 16, 2009 06:33 PM)
Male, 50, kentucky USA
i found about this because i saw posts comparing it to "defiance". this is far from the most violent movie i've ever seen, though it is pretty extreme for someone who knows little about the Eastern Front. but a month now after watching it 3 times while i had it from netflix, there are images from it i can recall with great clarity. this film has great, great movie-making power in it. something about it makes it impossible to forget. and it is a very beautiful movie, in many places. i will never forget glasha dancing in those boots on the suitcase, the lemur, the ungodly brightness of the flames at the church, the little boy picking up the phone and grunting "Berlin?", the beautiful nazi woman dying, choking beside a wrecked motorcycle, the tracers and the cow, the minefield, Glasha running from the bombs, and the scene of the partisans departing into the forest.
there is no other movie i've seen in the past 10 years of my life that i can recall that much detail and that many scenes from.
i will wait about a year and order this again. i have to say that this one of the best movies i have ever seen. (and i watch ALOT of movies) This is one film that i will always carry with me, inside.
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krispykrank — 17 years ago(February 22, 2009 12:11 AM)
New York, Long Island
22
Male
Heard it mentioned in an interview in Newsweek, watched it on yotube, the part were the kid and the girl return to his house after being with the partisans seems to be the most disturbing , the buzzing of the flies, the way the dolls are layed out on the floor, and the way the camera reveles the pile of bodies behind the house. like a horror movie but not as fun. and saving private is as good and maybe in some ways superior, but both do not compare to pearl harbor, by the way the blonde girl was hot -
e_is_mcsquare — 16 years ago(April 10, 2009 11:01 AM)
New Jersey, USA (originally from India)
M 32
After watching this last night, I am still thinking about this movie. Is there anything like surreal realism? I am still thinking about the scene where Florya meets Glasha after the bombing of the camp. Masterpiece! -
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pifnut — 16 years ago(August 19, 2009 03:33 PM)
It was a small budget Soviet film. Klimov had lived through the siege of Stalingrad during WWII and was influenced by that. He also spent time in Belarus learning about the massacres prior to beginning filming the movie.
My answer comes from the Wikipedia page on Klimov(I'm not quite sure how accurate it is, but some of the info on the page has references) and from the Guardian newspaper's obituary for Klimov(there's a link for it on the Wikipedia Klimov page, and it's definitely worth a read, especially the last paragraph where Klimov is quoted describing the siege. I included the links below
Elem Klimov's wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elem_Klimov
The Guardian obituary:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/nov/04/guardianobituaries.russia