A rare look at World War II from the Soviet side, Come and See is based on the real-life experiences of Ales Adamovich, who fought with Russian partisans in Belarus in 1943, when the Nazis systematically torched over 600 villages and slaughtered their inhabitants. Adamovich and director Elem Klimov co-authored the screenplay, which shows the horrors through the eyes of a 13-year-old peasant boy named Florya (Alexei Kravchenko). Over his single mother's protests, he joins the partisans, but they leave him behind in their ...
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A rare look at World War II from the Soviet side, Come and See is based on the real-life experiences of Ales Adamovich, who fought with Russian partisans in Belarus in 1943, when the Nazis systematically torched over 600 villages and slaughtered their inhabitants. Adamovich and director Elem Klimov co-authored the screenplay, which shows the horrors through the eyes of a 13-year-old peasant boy named Florya (Alexei Kravchenko). Over his single mother's protests, he joins the partisans, but they leave him behind in their camp when they set off to fight the Germans. Glascha (Olga Mironova), a lovely young girl, befriends him, but the two are caught in the midst of an air raid which leaves Florya nearly deaf. Now utterly frightened, Florya and Glascha return to his village to find it in ruins, and, in one of the film's many harrowing scenes, they wade through a swamp to locate the survivors. Now committed to seek vengeance for the death of his mother and neighbors, Florya returns to the front, but finds himself in a village that's right in the path of the Nazi firestorm. A band of partisans arrive too late to save the village but in time to capture and mete out justice to several of the Nazi officers. Awarded the Grand Prix at the 1985 Moscow Film Festival, Come and See is notable as an honest and unflinching portrait of one of the darker chapters among many in the history of the World War II. Tom Wiener, Rovi
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If you're seeking for the likes of Saving Private Ryan you will be disappointed by this film only because it does not employ the basic rules of Hollywood filmmaking.
If, however, you are looking for a film that dramatizes the experience of a young boy who is excited to take part in a war effort only to discover the horrible reality of warfare, then this is the film for you. In short, if you'd like to see a war film that does not glorify a single moment.
This is a profound reflection on the second World War, whereas SPR, although a great film in many respects, is unquestionably a Hollywood film, meant to make you care about characters who will then be heroically cut down, only to ultimately revere their sacrifice. But warfare takes many lives for which there will be no explanation, no justification, no glory, not even remembrance.
James B
Mar 19, 2022
OK, but only ok
Language was not english; was captioned in english. Desctription listed language as english. Not accurate enough to satisfy.
Russell
Aug 25, 2013
It OK for some people
This is certainly a different war movie, being of a different culture and another language/with English subtitle. It is easy to read and the plot easy to understand. I don't know of anyone I think who would enjoy seeing this. However, it is war and all the emotions, acts both good and bad.
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