Film presentation - Idi i smotri (Come and see)

At first, Florya is a curious child, almost eager to fight for his country, unaware of the dramas of war. At first he feels stimulated, sees things positively. But then - as a result of a long march through villages, swamps, fields and forests - his psyche changes. Anger grows and as a result hatred and vengefulness arise, two feelings no child should feel. Anger and hatred consume him until he breaks inside.

A masterful and poignant film, Idi i smotri, Come and See. Without masks, without moralistic tones. The title is a quotation from the Revelation of John, which understands redemption in the Holy Scriptures as the vision of an unimaginable world. In this masterpiece, the vision occurs in the gaze of a boy to whom the unimaginable destruction is revealed. Not the realisation of life, but the realisation of death. The film is set in Belarus, the…