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Come And See
1985
Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing experience, the film follows Florya (played brilliantly by Alexei Kravchenko), a 12-year-old boy living in 1943 Byelorussia. When he digs .. Read more
| Starring | Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius |
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| Director | Elem Klimov |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, World Cinema |
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Come And See
Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing experience, the film follows Florya (played brilliantly by Alexei Kravchenko), a 12-year-old boy living in 1943 Byelorussia. When he digs up an abandoned gun, Florya gleefully signs up with the Russian Army, looking forward to life as a soldier. But that fantasy rapidly deteriorates when the reality of the situation confronts him head-on. Abandoned by his fellow comrades, he stumbles across the weeping Glasha (Olga Mironova), a pretty teenager who has also been left behind. Together, the pair returns to Florya's village only to discover that everyone has been slaughtered Florya's mother and younger sisters included. The journey continues as Florya embarks on a mission to find food for the stranded inhabitants of a neighbouring village. He eventually lands in the middle of another German massacre, where the animalistic Nazis stuff the Russians into a barn and torch it, obliterating Florya's innocence completely. Klimov's unflinching masterpiece is all the more affecting because of the beauty of its imagery. Working on a variety of levels, COME AND SEE speaks both as personal statement and broad metaphor, making it a timeless, unforgettable achievement.
| Starring | Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius |
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| Director | Elem Klimov |
| Studio | NOUVEAUX PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 17 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | Russian |
| Dubbed | English |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 24 Apr 2006 Production year: 1985 |
| Format | DVD |
Come And See (1985)
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A searing antiwar drama that begins with a young boy laughing and playing as he goes off to fight, and ends with him totally traumatised by what he has seen. It ranks with Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood as one of the best Russian movies reflecting on
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Klimov alternates the horrors of war with occasional fairy tale-like images; together they imbue the film with an unapologetically disturbing quality that persists long after the credits roll...
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Come and See
Utter, mind blowlingly boring, stylistic rubbish!
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Raw violence
In order to get a proper feel of how the situation was back then, I suppose the viewer could not be spared any amount of the violence portrayed. One can only sympathise with the people who had to suffer through this mindless, depraved aggression on the part of the Nazis during WW2- but the fact remains- this movie does not qualify as entertainment. I would have placed it in the genre, Docu Drama/Horror.
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Come And See
Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing experience, the film follows Florya (played brilliantly by Alexei Kravchenko), a 12-year-old boy living in ...
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