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War-Torn Youth

War-Torn Youth

2 Episodes

The ravages of war are seen through the eyes of its youngest victims in these shattering tales of children forced to grow up too soon. Una Gunjak’s THE CHICKEN is a wrenchingly intimate look at the 1990s Bosnian War as experienced by a young girl only just awakening to the violence that surrounds her. Then, a teenage boy gets a devastating firsthand introduction to the horrors of World War II when he joins the Belarusian resistance in Elem Klimov’s harrowing masterpiece COME AND SEE, one of the most intense and haunting antiwar films of all time.

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War-Torn Youth

2 Episodes

  • Come and See
    2:23:23
    Come and See
    Episode 1

    Come and See

    Episode 1

    Directed by Elem Klimov • 1985 • Soviet Union

    This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguis...

  • The Chicken
    15:03
    The Chicken
    Episode 2

    The Chicken

    Episode 2

    Directed by Una Gunjak • 2014 • Germany, Croatia

    Bosnia, 1993. When she sets out to save her pet chicken from being killed, six-year-old Selma inadvertently puts her family in grave danger in this searing look at growing up during wartime.

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