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- TITLE: COME AND SEE
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- CAST: Alexei Kravchenko,Olga Mironova
- DIRECTOR: Klimov, Elem
- LENGTH: 142 min.
- COLOR_B&W_TINTED: Color
- RELEASE_DATE: 1979
- GENRE_MAIN: Drama
- GENRE_SECOND: Adolescence
- GENRE_THIRD: WWII
- COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: Russia
- LANGUAGE: Russian
- SUBTITLES_DUB: Subtitles
- INTERTITLES:
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- REVIEW_RATING: ***1/2 M
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- RIGHTS_TV: TV
- AVAILABILITY_DATE: Current
- TERRITORY_DOMESTIC: U.S.
- TERRITORY_CANADA: Canada
- TERRITORY_INTERNATIONAL:
- SYNOPSIS: In Byelorussia in 1943, A teenage boy named Florya wants to join the partisans. His mother, fearing reprisals from the Germans, begs him not to go. Two partisans arrive and drag Florya off. He is taken to a camp where he is assigned guard duty his first night. The same evening he meets Glasha, a young girl. When the soldiers break camp, Florya is left behind in a reserve settlement. He then encounters Glasha, who talks of love and children. This idyllic moment is interrupted by a German plane dropping paratroopers and bombing the forest, leaving Florya temporarily deaf. Returning to his village they find it deserted and many of the villagers massacred. Unable to accept the truth, Florya begins searching for survivors. Still in shock, Florya, accompanies three men in search of food. That night, a crying Florya attempts to confiscate a horse and grain from a farmer. But, Nazi soldiers surround the field. In order to escape, Florya and the farmer head for the village of Perekhody. The Nazis arrive in Perekhody by the hundreds. As the villagers are ordered into the square for a “security check,” Florya runs into the road warning them that they are rushing to their own slaughter. As the villagers are herded into a large barn, Florya jumps safely from a window. The villagers are burned alive. In the aftermath of the horror, Florya is reunited with the partisans. The group has captured a number of Germans. They execute those responsible for the slaughter. In the final sequence, Florya’s humanity is put to the ultimate test as he is metaphorically given the chance to kill Hitler in his infancy.
"Powerful material, powerfully rendered. A movie maker's tour de force." New York Times
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