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DramaWar

Come and See

- To love… to have children.

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya 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, Florya 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.

Release Date : 1985-10-17

Language :BelarusianGermanRussian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : BelarusfilmMosfilm

Production Country : Soviet Union

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Aleksei Kravchenko

Character Name : Flyora Gayshun

Original Name : Алексей Кравченко

Gender : Male

Olga Mironova

Character Name : Glasha

Original Name : Olga Mironova

Gender : Female

Liubomiras Laucevicius

Character Name : Kosach

Original Name : Liubomiras Laucevičius

Gender : Male

Vladas Bagdonas

Character Name : Rubezh

Original Name : Vladas Bagdonas

Gender : Male

Jüri Lumiste

Character Name : German Officer

Original Name : Jüri Lumiste

Gender : Male

Viktors Lorencs

Character Name : German General

Original Name : Viktors Lorencs

Gender : Male

Kazimir Rabetsky

Character Name : Village Headman

Original Name : Kazimir Rabetsky

Gender : Male

Yevgeni Tilicheyev

Character Name : Gezhel

Original Name : Евгений Тиличеев

Gender : Male

G. Velts

Character Name : German

Original Name : G. Velts

Gender : Male

Aleksandr Berda

Character Name : Chief of Staff of the Partisan Detachment

Original Name : Александр Берда

Gender : Male

Vasiliy Domrachyov

Character Name : Little Policeman

Original Name : Vasiliy Domrachyov

Gender : Male

Nina Evdokimova

Character Name : Mother

Original Name : Nina Evdokimova

Gender : Male

Igor Gnevashev

Character Name : Jew

Original Name : Igor Gnevashev

Gender : Male

Valery Kravchenko

Character Name : Kosach (voice)

Original Name : Валерий Кравченко

Gender : Male

Evgeniy Kryzhanovskiy

Character Name : Partisan with Glasses

Original Name : Evgeniy Kryzhanovskiy

Gender : Male

N. Lisichenok

Character Name :

Original Name : N. Lisichenok

Gender : Male

Viktor Manaev

Character Name : Partisan

Original Name : Виктор Манаев

Gender : Male

Gennady Matytskiy

Character Name : Kazik

Original Name : Gennady Matytskiy

Gender : Male

Takhir Matyullin

Character Name :

Original Name : Тахир Матюлин

Gender : Male

Pyotr Merkuryev

Character Name : Gleb Vasiliyevich

Original Name : Пётр Меркурьев

Gender : Male

Valentin Mishatkin

Character Name : Policeman

Original Name : Валентин Мишаткин

Gender : Male

Yevgeniya Polyakova

Character Name :

Original Name : Yevgeniya Polyakova

Gender : Male

Aleksandra Rovenskikh

Character Name : German Woman in the Car

Original Name : Александра Ровенских

Gender : Female

Oleg Shapko

Character Name :

Original Name : Oleg Shapko

Gender : Male

Tatyana Shestakova

Character Name : Flyora's Mother

Original Name : Tatyana Shestakova

Gender : Female

Anatoly Slivnikov

Character Name : Partisan Disguised as a German Soldier

Original Name : Анатолий Сливников

Gender : Male

Aleksandr Solopov

Character Name : Part-bit

Original Name : Aleksandr Solopov

Gender : Male

Georgiy Strokov

Character Name : Policeman

Original Name : Георгий Строков

Gender : Male

Igor Bezyaev

Character Name : Partisan (uncredited)

Original Name : Ігор Безяєв

Gender : Male

Yakov Ovchukov-Suvorov

Character Name : German with a Tambourine (uncredited)

Original Name : Yakov Ovchukov-Suvorov

Gender : Male

Svetlana Zelenkovskaya

Character Name : Part-bit (uncredited)

Original Name : Svetlana Zelenkovskaya

Gender : Female

Viktor Vasiliev

Character Name :

Original Name : Viktor Vasiliev

Gender : Male

Gennadiy Yelkin

Character Name : Flyora's friend

Original Name : Gennadiy Yelkin

Gender : Male

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

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, heavily armed, foe. What really resonates here is the simplicity of the production. There are no specials effects, no CGI to create many when there are few - it tells the simplest of stories in a manner that is truly brutal at times, then truly evocative at others. Man's inhumanity to man and all that - but writ large and depicting an invading army devoid of any semblance of humanity on just about every level. The experiences of this young man are truly horrific, but the presentation here is not especially graphic - though it's not for the faint hearted. We are shown what is happening, but Elem Klimov leaves plenty of scope for our own imagination to augment, if that is actually possible, the true grotesqueness of war, of random killings and destruction and all quite possibly exacerbated by the fact that the conquerors had no real idea what they were doing, or why - the film almost imbues them with the characteristics of the wildest of animals who enjoy their regime of torture and malevolence for the sake of it. The ending has a certain degree of vindication about it - but oddly enough it's not especially satisfying. The emotional exhaustion of the viewer has long since set in, and the true fate of what I can only really call these uniformed bullies is just, yet somehow inadequate. The film is gently paced, it could almost be a video diary as young "Flyora" meets and hides from those he encounters and we share his fears and risks en route. This is really well worth a watch but it's not an easy one.