Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing experience, the film follows Florya (played brilliantly by Alexei Kravchenko), a 12-year-old boy living in 1943 Byelorussia. When he digs up an abandoned gun, Florya gleefully signs up with the Russian Army, looking forward to life as a soldier. But that fantasy rapidly deteriorates when the reality of the situation confronts him head-on. Abandoned by his fellow comrades, he stumbles across the weeping Glasha (Olga Mironova), a pretty teenager who has also been left behind. Together, the pair returns to Florya's village only to discover that everyone has been slaughtered--Florya's mother and younger sisters included. The journey continues as Florya embarks on a mission to find food for the stranded inhabitants of a neighboring village. He eventually lands in the middle of another German massacre, where the animalistic Nazis stuff the Russians into a barn and torch it, obliterating Florya's innocence completely. Klimov's unflinching masterpiece is all the more affecting because of the beauty of its imagery. Working on a variety of levels, COME AND SEE speaks both as personal statement and broad metaphor, making it a timeless, unforgettable achievement.

Produced Mosfilm and Belarusfilm.

DVD Features:

2-Disc Set
Region 1
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Dolby Digital 5.1 - Russian
Additional Release Material:
Production Interviews: Cast & Crew
Documentary:
1. "Partisans in Belarus"
2. "Nazis' Brutalities"
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies
Stills/Photos

Alexei Kravchenko: 
Olga Mironova: Russian Actress
Liubomiras Lauciavicius: Actor, COME AND SEE (1985)

Elem Klimov: Russian Director

Elem Klimov: Russian Director
Ales Adamovich: Screenwriter, COME AND SEE (2001)

Oleg Yanchenko: Film Composer, COME AND SEE (1985)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Classical Composer

"Klimov's astonishing war movie combines intense lyricism with the kind of violent bloodletting that would make even Sam Peckinpah pause."
"...The history is harrowing and the presentation is graphic....Powerful material, powerfully rendered..."
"...[A] powerful war film....The director has elicited an excellent performance form his central actor Kravchenko..."
"...Klimov alternates the horrors of war with occasional fairy tale-like images; together they imbue the film with an unapologetically disturbing quality that persists long after the credits roll..."