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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: Where is this russian movie?
- Message-ID: <BzGzM0.382@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 19:32:23 GMT
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- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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- jflood@iat.holonet.net (Jim Flood) wrote:
- > Four years ago I saw a Russian movie in Paris (subtitled in French)
- > which was called if I remember "Requiem Pour une Massacre" (direct
- > translation: Requiem for a massacre???). It was the story of a young
- > Russian boy set during the german army's scorched-earth retreat in Russia
- > during WWII, if I understood the subtitles! I remember it was a very
- > powerful story and I have on occasion searched the Russian movie section
- > of video rental outlets ever since hoping to see it again.
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- I think you may mean Elem Klimov's "Come and See" - it has a climactic scene
- where a whole village is massacred by the Germans. Extraordinary film.
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