Come and See (1985)
Directed by Elem Klimov
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.
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The journey of a wide-eyed innocent across a fallen landscape is common territory for the war film, but like Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1956) and even Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood (1962) Come and See enlivens and enriches the form (one of the dominants of Soviet cinema) through the iconoclasm and intensity of many of its images.
The journey of a wide-eyed innocent across a fallen landscape is common territory for the war film, but like Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1956) and even Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood (1962) Come and See enlivens and enriches the form (one of the dominants of Soviet cinema) through the iconoclasm and intensity of many of its images.
Elem Klimov, the new head of the Soviet Filmmakers Association, explores the horrors of war in his classic coming-of-age drama "Come and See." Directing with an angry eloquence, he taps into that hallucinatory nether world of blood and mud and escalating madness that Francis Coppola found in "Apocalypse Now."