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Now and Then, the Last Beatles Song (2023)
Musical archeology
Emotional short documentary about the history of "the Beatles' last song". "Now and Then" was written and recorded by John Lennon around 1977 as a solo piano home demo. It was considered as the third Beatles reunion single for their 1995-1996 The Beatles Anthology, but it couldn't be done for technical issues, it was impossible to seoarate the voice and the piano sound.
In 2021 a new audio restoration technology made possible to finish the song with Lennon"s voice, adding Paul McCartney's bass and Ringo Starr's drums, as well guitar tracks by George Harrison from the 1995 sessions.
The song will be released on November 2.
Poyti i ne vernutsya (1992)
Intense film about war, but not warlike
Accurate adaptation of the novel "To Go and not Return" of the great Belarusian writer Vasil Bykau, who wrote about his experiences in the WWII or Great Patriotic War.
Bykau was drafted into the Red Army, where he was assigned to digging trenches. As the war progressed, he later joined the fight against the Germans, rising to the rank of junior lieutenant.
The plot: It is winter 1942, and in Nazi-occupied Belarus, two young partisans, Zosya and Anton, are sent on a reconnaissance mission.
Throughout three hard days in forests, rivers and swamps, they experience dramatic situations of love, loyalty and betrayal in moments of maximum tension. Anton has fallen in love with Zosya, but her desire to stay alive somehow leads him to betray her. This is not an epic story of battles, cannons and tanks. It is the story of two young people in an extreme situation; two people facing a difficult moral decision.