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Come and See

Play trailer Poster for Come and See Released Feb 6, 1987 2h 22m Drama War Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya (Aleksey Kravchenko) into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha (Olga Mironova), who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
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As effectively anti-war as movies can be, Come and See is a harrowing odyssey through the worst that humanity is capable of, directed with bravura intensity by Elem Klimov.

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Mark Le Fanu Sight & Sound The movie is terrible and pitiable. Klimov manages, as I say, to convey the authentic relentlessness of nightmare. Mar 15, 2023 Full Review David Denby New York Magazine/Vulture The movie is a succession of brutally sincere "art" assaults, jammed together like the poorly articulated cars of an old freight train. Mar 14, 2023 Full Review Derek Malcolm Guardian This is filmmaking of enormous power and feeling even if the film's length mitigates against it. Mar 14, 2023 Full Review Tom Cassidy Common Sense Media This 1985 Soviet anti-war drama is one of the best movies ever made. Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Jeff Simon Buffalo News Come and See is as harrowing and horrifying a war film as I've ever seen. It may well be a masterpiece, in fact. Mar 14, 2023 Full Review Robert Trussell Kansas City Star Rare is the film that successfully blends intoxicating visual images with unrelentingly grim material, but Russian director Elem Klimov's phenomenal Come and See is such a movie. Rated: 4/4 Mar 14, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Todd B A complex opera of horror and violence, staged with a sense of a series of psychological extremes that take the mise en scene into the nether regions of terror. One of the reviewers here, ", Jacob B." writes that it's a shame that this was the directors only film... which is an unfortunate piece of completely erroneous info.. Elem Kkimov had a pretty well fleshed out, impressive career, with a body of work that's almost universally well regarded. COME AND SEE was his *last* film.. perhaps that got tangled up in translation? Anyhow--i don't view the film as a 5 star masterpiece, sometimes the German soldiers are rendered with a silly pantomime of villainy (a mistake often made IMHO in a high portion of wwII melodramas... the Germans are portrayed as well nigh brain damaged mountebanks.... streamers of spit dangling from their chins the only thing missing) but it's definitely a tour de force of brutal filmmaking, well communicating the steady diet of violence that constituted the daily bread of those subject to the war on the Eastern Front. . . ie WW2's Operation Barbarossa. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/07/25 Full Review thiago s Filme bacaninha, o roteiro é mais ou menos, as cenas são mais ou menos, mas a cena final do garoto morto pelos soldados é forte e impactante, a história é mais ou menos, o elenco é mais ou menos, e alguns ajudam a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para ser bom. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 04/06/25 Full Review Audience Member Every time I watch this scary movie, I can't hold back the tears. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/05/25 Full Review Audience Member This is a heart wrenching film and might possibly be my favorite war film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/12/25 Full Review Jack S Sad movie about the brutality of war Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/11/25 Full Review O&R m I have no f**king words. One of the greatest films of all time. War is hell. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/04/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Elem Klimov

Director

Aleksey Kravchenko

Florya Gaishun

Olga Mironova

Glasha

Liubomiras Laucevicius

Kosach

Vladas Bagdonas

Rubezh

Evgeny Tilicheev

Gezhel
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Synopsis The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya (Aleksey Kravchenko) into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha (Olga Mironova), who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Director
Elem Klimov
Screenwriter
Ales Adamovich, Elem Klimov
Distributor
International Film Exchange
Production Co
Mosfilm, Belarusfilm
Genre
Drama, War, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Belarusian
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 6, 1987, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Feb 2, 2001
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 28, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$70.8K
Runtime
2h 22m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.66:1)
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