DIRECTOR
Elem Klimov
FORMAT
DCP
RUNTIME
2h 22m
RATING
NR
CAST
Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius
SYNOPSIS
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‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’
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 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.
‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’
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 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.
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CAST
Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius
SYNOPSIS
2024 Film Info
2024 Film Info
100%
F11
‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’
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 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.
‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’
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 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.
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This film is a presentation of the American Cinematheque. Tickets for this (or any other) American Cinematheque screenings at the Egyptian are only available through their site, here.
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