THE CRUELEST SIDE OF WAR.

As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in what is now known as Belarus, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance, envisioning adventure and glory. Instead, he finds a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty. Rendered with feverish, otherworldly intensity, Elem Klimov's harrowing masterpiece is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war.

Once the #1 film on Letterboxd and ranking #4 in the community’s Official Top 500 Narrative Feature Films at the time of its launch on Letterboxd Video Store, Elem Klimov’s “Come and See” has long been among the platform’s most revered and requested titles. Recently restored in 2K, this devastating anti-war film takes audiences into the Nazi occupation of Soviet Belorussia through the eyes of a teenage partisan, played in an extraordinary performance by Alexei Kravchenko. Klimov's filmmaking draws on the dreamlike sensibilities of Andrei Tarkovsky, combining nightmarish imagery, expressionistic sound design and an almost hallucinatory sense of dread. Famously delayed for seven years by Soviet censors, "Come and See" went on to win the Golden Prize and FIPRESCI Prize at the 1985 Moscow International Film Festival, and now joins Video Store as one of the community's most sought-after films.

Languages: Russian, German. English subtitles available.