Come And See (Film, 1985)

Come and See is a 1985 Soviet-era film by director Elem Klimov. One Youtuber describes it as "The Scariest Film Ever Made ISN'T a Horror Film" because of its videographic treatment of non-fictional subject matter.^[1]

The story is based on documentary facts and refers to the “Khatyn novel”, written by Ales Adamovich, who co-wrote the movie script with Klimov.

After the German invasion of Belarus during World War II, Flera, a sixteen years old boy played by 13-year-old actor Aleksey Kravchenko, leaves his mother to go into the forest to join the partisans.

Among the horrors Flera experiences in the two and a quarter-hour film is a shockingly realistic depiction of the Einsatzgruppen wiping out an entire village, one of 628 villages we learn at the end of the film that were exterminated in Belarus.

Director Elem Klimov said, "in America people can hardly watch this film. Of course, there are those who do watch. I think their problem is... They say: "We have thrillers, but here it's something different. It's real life."

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• COME AND SEE | ENGLISH SUBTITLES