Come and See (Russian: Иди и смотри, Idi i smotri; lit. "Go and look") directed by Elem Klimov, is a 1985 Soviet war movie and psychological horror drama about and occurring during the Nazi German occupation of the Belarussian SSR, in 1943. Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova star as the protagonists Florya and Glasha. The screenplay is by Ales Adamovich and Elem Klimov; the title derives from The Apocalypse of John, Chapter 6:
English: . . . an...
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Come and See (Russian: Иди и смотри, Idi i smotri; lit. "Go and look") directed by Elem Klimov, is a 1985 Soviet war movie and psychological horror drama about and occurring during the Nazi German occupation of the Belarussian SSR, in 1943. Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova star as the protagonists Florya and Glasha. The screenplay is by Ales Adamovich and Elem Klimov; the title derives from The Apocalypse of John, Chapter 6:
English: . . . and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!"
Come and See begins with two Belorussian boys digging in a sand field looking for abandoned rifles, in order to be permitted membership of the Soviet partisan forces, while an old farmer warns them not to dig. One of the boys, Florya (or "Florian," in certain translations), finds an SVT-40. The next day, partisans arrive at his house and take Florya with them, to the dismay of his mother who fears that the loss of her son, like his father before him,...
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