From "Come and See" to "Posledniy Poezd" - Victor Khomenko - Films/DVD Asylum

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From "Come and See" to "Posledniy Poezd"

Victor Khomenko

When it comes to war movies, the Russians know their business. They will turn you inside out, make you cry with pain, then put you back in relative order and send home... with memories.
We had discussed Come and See here many times before, but if you find its message strong, its images almost overpowering and the suffering almost physical, then you might consider the Posledniy Poezt (Last Train) a culmination, a pinnacle in torturous movies, the ones that bring the horrors of was home like none else.
It is cold... cold... cold in that movie. You can't hide from that cold, and from the death that is everywhere. Set in black and white, with choppy and almost meaningless dialogue, full of strange looking characters and endless cough... cough... cough... the film tortures you. Tortures with endless spreads of frozen Russian plane with no place to hide, with cruelty and needless deaths.
You will be mesmerized with the coldness of shots made through the narrow car windshield, and quite possibly soon you will see death not as an end of life, but end of sufferings.
It would be hard to call this film a masterpiece, and yet its images will haunt you. If Black Robe made you shiver from cold, this one will simply stop blood in your veins.
There is bright spot - the film is apparently not available in the US. However, if you speak German, you might do just fine with it, as much of the dialogue is in that language, and the rest... well, the rest is not too hard to figure out. So perhaps someone like Patrick would be able to live through it to tell us...?

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Topic - From "Come and See" to "Posledniy Poezd" - Victor Khomenko 19:05:54 11/16/05 (12)

Jesus... that film keeps haunting me! - Victor Khomenko 08:26:33 11/17/05 (0)

Re: From "Come and See" to "Posledniy Poezd" - patrickU 06:51:20 11/17/05 (10)

"Come and See" commits Heironymous Bosch to film with it's sack of the village . . . - mr grits 13:02:57 11/17/05 (1)

Re: Well I can show you one more---------------- - patrickU 00:19:36 11/18/05 (0)

Re: From "Come and See" to "Posledniy Poezd" - Victor Khomenko 07:07:55 11/17/05 (7)

Re: From "Come and See" to "Posledniy Poezd" - patrickU 08:02:43 11/17/05 (6)

Here: - Victor Khomenko 08:09:48 11/17/05 (5)

Re: Here: - patrickU 03:50:30 11/18/05 (0)

Victor: put me on the list for that one! - grinagog 20:17:33 11/17/05 (3)

I will... - Victor Khomenko 05:53:40 11/18/05 (2)

Many thanks for your kind offer, Victor - grinagog 20:42:07 11/18/05 (1)

Re: Many thanks for your kind offer, Victor - Victor Khomenko 06:04:31 11/20/05 (0)

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