Re: most emotionally devasting moment in film
"I've never heard of this film before...is it worth seeking out?"
Hell Yeah. They're selling it on Amazon. It's worth buying just to watch the performance of the teenage lead actor, Aleksei Kravchenko. It's also Sean Penn's favourite film.
The director, Elem Klimov, stopped making films after this because he felt he expressed everything he could. It's great art and you won't be the same after watching it. Another Klimov film which is interesting is "Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin" (1975).
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