Come and SeePaid | Amazon Video on Demand
Length: 02:17:00
Posted: 9/7/2009
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. watch
