A feature by Elem Klimov made from the script by Ales Adamovich. It was released in 1985 and ranks among the most horrifying war films. It`s not only about the war of 1941-1945 exactly, but about any war, its devastating force sweeping away the natural course of things. The film is based upon documental facts and `The Khatyn Story` by Ales Adamovich.
The authors describe the place and events which became a symbol of national tragedy. The hero of the film is Flyora, a sixteen-year-old boy that turned to the woods to help the partisans. At the beginning he is just a kid. Then he lives through the horror of the Nazi executions and becomes amazingly grown-up, and even old. The war had distorted the once tender childish facial features - it`s all wrinkles now. The altered face of Flyora is the face of War. The authors were so true-to-life, uncompromising and austere as to portray in the centre of the film not some grown-up man, but an unexperie nced kid with his childhood still here.



Awards:
• Grand Special Prize at the All-Union FF, 1986
• Prize of the All-Union FF for camera work, 1986
• Prize of the All-Union FF for sound work, 1986
• Prize of the All-Union FF to the composer, 1986


Special freatures:
• Interviews with director Elem Klimov, production designer V. Petrov, actor A. Kravchenko
• Archive materials "Partisans in Belarus", "Nazi’ Brutalities"
• Cast and Crew Filmographies
• Photo Album
• Coming soon on DVD

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Avtorami vybrano imenno to mesto i te sobytiya, kotorye stali simvolom narodnoj bedy i stradaniya . Geroj lenty, Flera, - shestnadtsatiletnij malchishka, otpravivshijsya v les na podmogu k partizanam . V nachale filma on sovsem rebenok . V kontse, projdya cherez uzhas karatelnoj aktsii fashistov, stanovitsya vzroslym, pugayusche vzroslym i dazhe - starym . Vojna iskazila kogda-to nezhnye, detskie cherty i prevratila ih v starcheskie morschiny . Izmenivsheesya litso Flery - eto litso Vojny . Surovye v svoej beskompromissnoj trezvosti avtory sdelali geroem filma ne ordenonosnogo partizana, a nesmyshlenogo parenka, esche ne pokinuvshego detstvo.


Nagrady:
• Glavnyj Spetsialnyj priz Vsesoyuznogo kinofestivalya za 1986 god
• Premiya Vsesoyuznogo kinofestivalya za operatorskuyu rabotu za 1986 god
• Premiya Vsesoyuznogo kinofestivalya za rabotu zvukooperatora za 1986 god
• Premiya Vsesoyuznogo kinofestivalya za rabotu kompozitora za 1986 god


Dopolnitelnyj material (bonus-trek):
• Fotografii i filmografii sozdatelej filma
• Intervyu s rezhisserom E. Klimovym
• Intervyu s ispolnitelem roli Flery A. Kravchenko
• Intervyu s hudozhnikom-postanovschikom Viktorom Petrovym
• Dokumentalnye syuzhety: "Zverstva fashistov v Belorussii", "Partizanskoe dvizhenie v Belorussii"

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