Elem Klimov

Come and See -- A crowning achievement of 1980's Soviet Cinema revived in 2001 to great acclaim, COME AND SEE is perhaps the ultimate WWll film. With haunting imagery, this stark testimonial to the madness and grief of war recounts the nightmarish journeys of an adolescent boy during the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia. Russian with English subtitles.

A rare look at World War II from the Soviet side, COME AND SEE is based on the real-life experiences of Ales Adamovich, who fought with Russian partisans in Belarus in 1943 when the Nazis systematically torched over 600 villages and slaughtered their inhabitants.

A crowning achievement of 1980's Soviet cinema, Elem Klimov's COME AND SEE is perhaps the ultimate WWII film. Klimov's elegant, harrowing union of unflinching ferocity and dreamlike clarity moved Empire Of The Sun author J. G. Ballard to declare COME AND SEE the greatest war film ever made. When young Florya willingly joins a group of Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, U.S.S.R., he little suspects that he is plunging through the looking glass. Separated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya - in the company of a beguiling peasant girl - wanders a battle-scorched Russian purgatory of prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. Florya's journey takes him and us through a gallery of exquisitely poetic imagery and brutal human atrocity. More than any other war film, COME AND SEE unites the powerful truths and inescapable dilemmas that lurk behind both the raptures of youth and the horrors of war. Russian with English subtitles.