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7. Live Ammunition Was Fired At The Cast - Come & See

Elem Klimov's masterful 1985 Soviet war drama is one of the most searing and unshakably haunting films of its genre ever made, and one that enhanced its harrowing subject matter with a similarly torturous shoot.

It's of course no secret that Hollywood uses prop guns with blank ammunition to stage shootouts, but Klimov made the undeniably irresponsible decision to use live ammunition during the film's relentless coverage of Nazi slaughter.

Aleksey Kravchenko, who plays the film's teenage Belarusian protagonist Flyora, has spoken in interviews of bullets whizzing just 4 inches (10 centimeters) above his head during filming, something Klimov himself also confirmed.

The resulting film is certainly a jaw-droppingly bleak and almost unbearably lived-in depiction of the Nazi German occupation of Belarus, and perhaps explains how the young Kravchenko could so convincingly play a picture of fear throughout Klimov's masterpiece.

As for the ethics of putting your cast in very tangible mortal danger, though? That's obviously indefensible.