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ROGER DEAKINS, ASC, BSC: SIX FAVORITE FILMS
Top: Dynamic camera movement makes Come and See (1985), shot by
Aleksy Rodionov for director Elem Klimov, an intense viewing experience.
Bottom: After eagerly joining a group of Belarusian partisans battling Nazi
forces, Flyora (Aleksei Kravchencko), finds himself trapped in a nightmare.
Come and See (1985)
Director: Elem Klimov
Cinematographer: Aleksei Rodionov
This brutal, unrelentingly grim masterpiece brings viewers face to face
with one of the most horrific incidents of World War II: the massacre
of an entire Belarusian village by a merciless Nazi Einsatzkommando
unit. Director Klimov and his cinematographer, Rodionov, opted to
shoot in the 1:37:1 aspect ratio, exploiting the boxy frame to maximum
effect - even in shots that depict wider vistas. Their manipulation of
screen space is masterful; lateral camera movement is not as critical as
forward or backward moves, creating a spatial sense of three dimensions.
Steadicam is utilized brilliantly throughout, especially during a
tour-de-force POV shot that wends through a group of villagers before
the story's young protagonist, a boy named Flyora (played with remarkable
emotional range and intensity by 13-year-old first-time actor Alexei
Kravchenko), is confronted by a village elder who's nearly been burned
alive by the Nazis.
Early scenes of Flyora and his friends playing make-believe war
games in battle-ravaged Belarus - and subsequent scenes of the boy
relishing his first taste of pre-combat camaraderie after joining a group
of partisan fighters - soon give way to a nightmarish descent into hell.
Klimov never shies away from the brutality on display, transcending safe
or stagy representations of wartime atrocities - he does not trivialize,
sentimentalize or soften the real horrors of war. Characters often gaze
straight into the camera, breaking the fourth wall and confronting the
viewer head-on, with out-of-focus backgrounds enhancing the effect.
The result is a harrowing and haunting work of visual grandeur that
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