Come and See
1985 · Movie · NR · 142 min · ★ 8.2 · 85% critics
When enemy forces invade rural Belarus, a young boy leaves home to join exhausted resistance fighters. As he moves through forests and villages with a companion, he’s confronted by escalating brutality that shatters any illusions about war, pushing him into a harrowing struggle to hold on to hope amid devastation.
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Details
- Original title
- Иди и смотри
- Years
- 1985
- Release date
- 1985-10-17
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Critic score
- 85/100
- TMDB rating
- 8.2/10 (1,849 votes)
- Box office
- $20,929,648
About
If you want an unflinching, mind-haunting war experience that lingers long after it ends, this is essential viewing; Not for you if you avoid deeply distressing cruelty, bleakness, or prefer more conventional war stories like Pan's Labyrinth.
Pros: unforgettable emotional impact; immersive wartime atmosphere; strong performances | Cons: relentlessly bleak tone; overwhelming, unsettling scenes; slow, diary-like pacing
Themes
- nazi
- war crimes
- insanity
- world war ii
- surrealism
- wehrmacht
- teenage girl
- atrocity
- genocide
- russian army
- mine field
- horrors of war
- +5 more
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1986 · nominated
Cast & crew
Aleksei Kravchenko
as Flyora Gayshun
Olga Mironova
as Glasha
Liubomiras Laucevičius
as Kosach
Vladas Bagdonas
as Rubezh
Jüri Lumiste
as Obersturmführer
Viktors Lorencs
as Sturmbannführer
Kazimir Rabetsky
as Village Headman
Yevgeni Tilicheyev
as Gezhel
Aleksandr Berda
as Chief of Staff of the Partisan Detachment
- GV
G. Velts
as Medical NCO
Directed by Elem Klimov