CELLULOID NIGHTS BY CINEMA NICHE: COME AND SEE!
Cinema /////////// Come and See /////////// 35mm /////////// Elem Klimov /////////// Cinema Niche /////////// Uránia
Celluloid Nights brings three war classics back to the screen on 35mm prints this spring. In April, the second screening in the series is Elem Klimov's 1985 masterpiece, rarely seen in domestic cinemas, yet one of the most infamous war visions in film history. A unique opportunity to experience this film on celluloid, in its raw reality.
Cinema Niche will continue its highly successful screening series at Urania in 2025. The mission of Celluloid Nights is to recreate the unrepeatable experience of experiencing our favourite films on 35mm filmstrip, while giving a younger generation, perhaps for the first time, this unique opportunity. While cinemas now project digitally, the experience of projecting a film on celluloid is quite different. For contemporary directors such as Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson, shooting for film is first and foremost a creative decision that influences how their work will appear on the big screen. Like them, Celluloid Nights celebrates the materiality of film, recognising the uniqueness and eternal glory of film as a physical medium.
Schedule
Date: 10 April 2025, Thursday 19:00
🎬 Location.
🎬 Ticket price: 3900 ft
🎬 Length: 142 minutes
🎬 Projection language: original Russian text with Hungarian subtitles
🎬 IMDB: imdb.com/title/tt0091251/
🎬 Letterboxd:letterboxd.com/film/come-and-see/
Come and See is Elem Klimov's apocalypse, which not only recalls the horrors of the Second World War, but also deals with memory itself and the impossibility of dealing with trauma. Through the eyes of a young peasant boy, Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko), the film takes us through the hell of war: devastated villages, slaughtered civilians and the ultimate disintegration of the human soul are all brought to life.
Klimov's radical language and expressive visual style make the film more of a hallucination than a classic war narrative. Here, war is not a heroic act, but a dehumanising force that assaults all the senses and from which there is no escape. The film condenses the unspeakability of the war experience with a unique intensity, its images burned into our memories forever.
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Celluloid Nights is hosted by Bálint Dezső, a member of the Cinema Niche team.
The programme is supported by the Uránia National Film Theatre and the NKA. The copy was provided by the National Film Institute - Film Archive.
Founded in 1957 and operating as a public collection since 1992, the Hungarian Film Archive is responsible for the preservation, conservation, research, restoration and publication of the Hungarian film heritage and all related documentation.
The film prints shown in the Celluloid Nights series have been preserved and brought back to life on the cinema screen thanks to the efforts of the archive's staff.
Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
The Uránia National Film Theatre is unique among Hungarian cinemas as it is the only national film and cultural centre operating as an institute It is the film profession’s counterpart of the National Theatre and the Opera House, of which most important task is to present and show the treasures of contemporary and classical film art as well as organising film clubs, national and international film festivals, and other events (first nights).