Come and See

1985 • 2h 22m •

Drama War Horror History

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★ 8.2/10

1,948 reviews

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The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Flyora into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Flyora 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.

"The cruelest side of war."

Top Billed Cast

Aleksei Kravchenko

Flyora Gayshun

Olga Mironova

Glasha

Liubomiras Laucevičius

Kosach

Vladas Bagdonas

Rubezh

Jüri Lumiste

Obersturmführer

Viktors Lorencs

Sturmbannführer

Kazimir Rabetsky

Village Headman

Yevgeni Tilicheyev

Gezhel

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic

2023-09-03

This has got to be the perfect antidote to the Hollywood treatment of a war film. It's bleak, grim and repulsive - and all in a great, intentional, cinematographic fashion. The thread centres around the young "Flyora" (a superb effort from Aleksey Kravchenko) who is taken from his Belorussian family farm at gunpoint (along with anything it's possible to eat) by the invading Nazi troops. What now ensues follows this young man as he escapes his captors, finds an old rifle and determines to join up with the communists who are fighting almost insurmountable odds to thwart their encroaching, heavil...