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Come and See

Original title: Idi i smotri · Turkish title: Gel ve Gör

“The cruelest side of war.”

1985 · 2 h 22 min
Directed by Elem Klimov
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Cast

Aleksei Kravchenko Olga Mironova Liubomiras Laucevičius

Credits

Written by: Ales Adamovich

Plot

In 1943, in Belarus, the teenage Flyora digs up a rifle and joins the partisans against his mother's wishes. When he is left behind he witnesses the horrors of the German occupation, including massacres of villages, and is aged by what he sees. Elem Klimov's 1985 film, with Aleksei Kravchenko, is among the most harrowing war films ever made, and won the Grand Prize at the Moscow Film Festival.

Sinekatalog’s take

Elem Klimov's Soviet war film follows a boy through the Nazi occupation of Belarus. It is immersive, nightmarish and exhausting, and few films capture the loss of childhood in war so directly.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 8.3 / 10 (127,258 votes)
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