(IDI I SMOTRI, Elem Klimov, Soviet Union 1986, 142 min., Russian/subtitles)

A teenaged boy in Nazi-occupied Russia flees his own destroyed village and falls in with a band of partisans, discovering firsthand the brutal ordeals suffered by peasants. Klimov’s final film is an odyssey on the scale of Apocalypse Now, shot in muted colors that grimly emphasize the barbarity of war. “A masterpiece not only of filmmaking, but of humanity itself”—Sean Penn.