FRI JUN 6, 2025 3:00 PM COME AND SEE $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | Introduction by film editor Josh Ethier, ACE 40th Anniversary ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 4’ This event has passed
ABOUT THE FILM: In Belarusian, Russian and German with English subtitles. This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s JOAN OF ARC) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camerawork and expressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors who took eight years to approve its script, COME AND SEE is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Soviet Union