GENRE: WAR
DURATION: 136mins
DIRECTOR: ELEM KLIMOV
CAST: ALEXEI KRAVCHENKO, OLGA MIRONOVA, LIUBOMIRAS LAUCIAVICIUS, VLADAS BAGDONAS

This savage and lyrical fever of death, rage and terror, experienced through a child’s eyes - is the ultimate WWII film. When young Florya joins a group of partisans fighting the Nazis in Belorussia, little does he suspects that he is plunging through the looking glass.  Separated from his comrades and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya wanders local battle-scorched villages enveloped by brutality and slaughter. Florya’s journey takes him through a gallery of exquisitely poetic imagery and human atrocity. Sean Penn says of the film: “...What I saw will stay with me forever; it is a masterpiece not only of filmmaking, but of humanity itself.”

 

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