Film · 1985 · War drama
Come and See
Directed by Elem Klimov
1985
Russia
★ 8.6 editorial score
No other war film can follow it: Klimov put a boy's face through the destruction of Belarus and let it age visibly, and nobody watches it twice lightly.
“"Come and See" is simply a masterpiece, one of a handful of indispensable films out of all the hundreds of movies made about WWII...Klimov has been quoted as saying that if he used all the things he witnessed in the evacuation of Stalingrad, no one could bear to watch it. But the director's patient, calculated despair, combined with a startling visual style, are ultimately what put "Come and See" in the first rank of war films.”
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