Twelfth screening in Season of World Cinema at RPC

Research and Publication Centre (RPC) in collaboration with Filmbar (on Instagram) announces the screening of the twelfth film in its Season of World Cinema: Elem Klimov's "Come and See" (1985).

This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanising horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in what is now known as Belarus, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) 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 camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, "Come and See" is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget anti-war film ever made.

Timing: Friday, March 17, 2023, 6:00 PM at Research and Publication Centre (RPC), 2nd floor, 65 Main Boulevard Gulberg, Lahore (next to Standard Chartered Bank, above Indesign showroom).

Rashed Rahman

Editor, Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) (link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com)

Director, Research and Publication Centre (RPC) (on Facebook) 

RPC and Filmbar's Season of World Cinema is intended to bring to Pakistani audiences films that are otherwise not available in Pakistan. Entry is free. Tea is served after the show. All friends are welcome.