Sound in this movie is dead silence or chaos, no in between. It exemplifies true horrors of war. No heroic music, no fanfares, just human suffering laid in front of you.
Exactly like "Apocalypse Now" (F.F. Coppola, 1979) about the Vietnam war, and "Son of Saul" (Saul Fia, 2015, Laszlo Nemes) about Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz II- Birkenau ; the first one (like "Idi i Smotri" Come and See) is eternal, almost biblical in its way to depict war as a calamity, a hellish evil which spawns horror among the earth. The second is incredible because it restrains the spectator to a point of view, in a claustrophobic and realistic way, and it has almost no external soundtrack. Go watch them if you didn't have the chance until now. They're worth watching.
Maybe life has took away my sensitivity, but this movie is not sad or violent, it is just weirdo. But must Slav movies are alike. Maybe they try to overcompensate their lack of budget with over acting, but this just makes the actors and actions look cartoonish. 1 out of 10. If you want some real anti war movie try: 1. Threads bbc 1987 2. Jhony got his gan 3. Born on 4th of July 4. All quiet in the west front
@@oliverbrunninge should watch the original all quiet in the western front that's also true to the ruits made just before ww2 about ww1 on the German side. Banned nearly everywhere for a while then after ww2 it got the light it deserved.
Those child actors truly did an outstanding performance! The boy became a professional actor later, but for the girl it was her only movie she was ever in.
@@husseinmoussa2947 It seems she became a teacher, and regarding she was an art student before its likely that she was not the one for fame. After delivering her personal peace of artwork at such a young age, its plausible she decided to spend her later life as a private person.
My Grandfather was from Belarus and his story is very similar to the boy in the movie. He was 15 and went to join the partisans. His family and village succumbed to the same fate as in the movie. My grandfather was caught by Germans and put into a labour camp. After the war through the Americans he escaped and eventually settled in new zealand..young, no English, no family. He married and prospered in nz...but never returned to Russia..he went through a lot of PTSD and issues but had a relatively happy life and new family. When I was 21 (1994) I showed him this movie. He was quiet throughout, and I saw tears in his eyes at many times. He said this was an incredibly realistic depiction and extremely close to his story and life.
They do and my Come and See dvd is arriving today and I will do everything with it as I did with Saving private Ryan, I’m so ready for the fights between Ryan and Floyra now as I love both of them at the same time
@@krazythedomm I don’t bother with Ty news anymore because it’s just depressing. I’d rather my anxiety attacks over Come and See other than the news. I have not slept very well for 2 weeks because the movie loves to haunt my mind but I do have a heart for the movie no matter what it did to me recently.
Yea, the ones bombing , starving , and ethnically killing Palestinians as if they were just flies….maybe the criminals should remember what it was like when it happened to them and oh I don’t know, stop bombing and starving people?
That intro. There’s something so haunting about just two kids digging up a battlefield, innocently playing with the guns and helmets the dead soldiers left behind. Incredible film
До сих пор на полях сражений проводятся раскопки. Находят останки погибших солдат, вооружение, патроны, предметы быта. Некоторые гранаты до сих пор несут в себе заряд. Это опасная, но нужная работа, выполняемая волонтёрами на собственные средства. Некоторых бойцов удаётся опознать по медальонам и вернуть их семьям спустя десятилетия
My grandfather was a child when his father and his entire family were invited under the resettlement program to Kaliningrad (Kenigsberg). Grandfather said that in those places, even a year after the bloody battles, all the surrounding forests were dotted with weapons and military equipment. One day, grandfather and his older brothers went into the forest and found several boxes of household soap there and, delighted with this find, they brought it to their mother. When this "soap" was seen by the elder brother, who fought as a sapper, he turned pale, because the "soap" turned out to be TNT briquettes. Grandfather, along with his friends, played shooting from an anti-aircraft gun at the sky. My grandfather also said that many fished with grenades. Almost all residents had machine guns and rifles in their houses. Weapons were needed to protect against armed gangs of flattering brothers, who often raided nearby settlements.
That quote from Floyra will always haunt me because I said that to him in my nightmares of Come and See when I died, Floyra still has my blood on his hands today and he refuses to get it off because it symbolises his love for me. When Floyra reunites with his other girl Glasha, she gets the dreaded news from a heartbroken Floyra about my death and Glasha just evily stares at Floyra and he immediately knew she was responsible. A grieving Floyra starts getting angry with her and he finally gets his ultimate revenge on Glasha but there is such a heartbreaking scene where Floyra hesitates of doing it and then has a vision of me saying “You have to do this Floyra whether you hesitate or not because I love you!” A grieving Floyra finally breaks down and finally brutally stabbed Glasha but he stays with her until the end and then he just leaves her there showing no remorse for what he did. Hopefully for my Come and See nightmares ending will be a grieving Floyra rejoining the partisans he was with earlier and he actually tells the young boy who looked like him about me and he feels sorry for Floyra going through this and they just continued on as normal with a grieving Floyra knowing he finally got the justice he deserves and Floyra might pay a moving tribute to me a year later in 1944. That will be an incredible ending to mine and Floyra’s love story and he’ll never find a girl like me again
@@СветланаЯ-д8ь но ведь идёт обсуждение актёрской игры - мы всё же смотрим фильм. Да он основан на реальных событиях, да любой здравомыслящий человек понимает, что ужасы снятые в фильме - лишь часть, малая часть ужасов тех лет. Но обсуждение не об этом.
I am speechless. A more powerful film has never been made. And the actor who played the boy was the best I've ever, ever seen. He aged right before our eyes as parts of him were devoured by relentless waves of the naked, unvarnished horror that destroys humans even if they survive, and destroys humanity just the same.
I mean infinity war was pretty powerful thanos did have all the infinity stones. Also broke world record sales. The boy that played spider man aged through cinema time and became a man. Thanos destroyed humanity and we came back.
WRONG. You have a lot to complain. GO OUT AND DO IT. Unless you free yourselves from your n4z1 government WE abroad will NEVER be free. USA achieved what N4z1 germany tried but couldn't, because the SOVIETS stoped them. They lost the cold war, unfortunately. Look at your immigrant camps, your colonies abroad, your second and third class citizens, your forced labour prisons... ITS ALL THERE BUT YOU DONT REALISE IT CAUSE YOUVE BEEN EDUCATED THIS WAY, JUST LIKE YOUNG GERMANS IN 1940.
This movie really puts into perspective how little time has passed since WW2. A lot of the people who acted in this movie probably experienced the war. The weapons, German/Soviet uniforms and equipment are definitely almost all original which gives an authentic feel. Such a powerful movie, it looks like a modern production thanks to the cinematography.
I have never seen a young man age so quickly as in this film. He's a kid in the beginning, playing on a beach. By the end, he looks closer to 40 and is doing what he needs to survive. I wish more people knew about this masterpiece of a film. The surrealness makes it more real in a way. True magic. I wish films like this didn't have to be made but "Come and See" is truly like nothing I've ever seen before.
I doubt that the American institute of propaganda would honor this movie. The movie speaks for itself. Needs no further confirmation. It shows human disaster all over. Even the killers in the movie are victims. They have lost their humanity. There is no meaning in this kind of conflict. Only loss. Something that most people will never experience in their life. Which is good. But we need to know that our good lives are not a given.
When I first saw this several years ago I found it so confronting I had to give up, two years later I watched through to the end. My father was in Serbia during WW2 and most of his family were killed or died of hunger. My mother, a non-Serb, said my dad was traumatised and had nightmares about the war for the remainder of his life (he died in late 2008). Watching this gave me the smallest look into what my dad and millions, upon millions of others lived through. I don't know how my father and all those others who survived had the strength and luck to survive the nightmare of war, I am not certain I could have. I hope we and our children never, ever have to live through such events again.
The Criterion 2020 blu-ray release of this film has five mini documentaries which are actually interviews with people who survived their encounter with the SS Einsatzgruppen and the stories they tell are harrowing to say the least. If you can get this blu-ray, it’s well worth the money, but it’s region coded so you’d have to have a region free player.
@@daliborsulgostowski907 it was happening for the past 8 years only the most of us were not aware of it. There was no mainstream media cover of the conflict in the Donbas which last since 2014.. Nowdays it is completely biased and selective.
The scene of Glasha chasing after Flyora to find his family, only for her to turn around and catch a quick glimpse of the corpses behind the house will forever be etched into my brain. It took almost no words for that scene, and it is incredibly powerful.
You know the girl at 2:04:36 is also "Gla sha". This is what will be forever in my brain. Blood in her mouth Blood on her legs Because they throuw her into a "transport truck" with so many men And a flute in her mouth I can not find energy or anything else to "let that go"
This is how a movie about WW should be made. Its not about heroes who defeat evil, not a saint who fight for justice. Unlike any other war movie nowadays which glorified wars, this movie depict the cruelty of them as it is.
There are a few films that touch this quality regarding the brutality and futility of war, though only one on my list relates to WWII. Das Boot does not deal with this type of bestial atrocity, but captures in a visceral way life on a German U boat with the same intensity and relentless momentum. The Killing Fields covers the after effects of the War in Vietnam, and Hotel Rwanda also has the same quality of unvarnished raw reality.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 Except Hotel Rwanda was a Hollywood confection made by the anglo-american cabal designed to hide the truth of the atrocities which the CIA and MI5 manufactured for their own despicable ends, the horrors of which continue to this day..
@@simonlee8889 I agree, but they also told the story of the Canadian commander who had his hands tied from any possible action. He suffered terrible PTSD following the genocide. As much as they tried to hide outside instigation, they did capture the sickening result of its full breakout anyone who does a little research will know what was not included.🖤🇨🇦
I would think this is possibly the only 'War Film' where the director has intentionally not used any battle scenes (just showing some of the after affects) & the terrible reality of trying to be brave like the boy Florya but unwittingly just adding more death to a situation that has little sanity or reason.
@@tamarrajames3590 hi there , the 'Killing Fields' has very little to do with the US/Vietnamese war .it was an internal conflict in Cambodia, where the extreme left wing Khmer Rouge ,financed by China took control of the country in 1975. The mass killings (approx 20% of its population) were largely halted in'79 when a Vietnamese force intervened.
I remember when I saw this movie for the first time. I couldn't sleep because of my depression, I started looking for something to distract myself with, and I found this movie. After watching it, I realized that I never had the right to complain about my life
I watch it because I’m sick and tired of my mother re ensuring my health all the time so i confined into Floyra for support instead of her. Whenever I’m yelling with my mother, Floyra hides terrified because he realises I’m protecting him. Once I’m with Floyra though, my mood changes fast because I know he understands me. Even Woody hates seeing me and Florya together because Woody thinks I’m disobeying the Queen’s wishes of Woody looking after me as much as he could and he told Florya “The late Queen would be so ashamed if she saw you two together now!” I broke down and Florya hugged me again. Floyra will never listen to Woody and will always remain at my side no matter what. He knows what love means
"Come and See" is the greatest anti-war film ever made. It's a true masterpiece. Everyone should see it at least once in order to comprehend what war is, and does.
Just anti-Nazi. There are lots of wars in human history, but most of them weren't that sick, spit on these sick soldiers and evil countries. God won't bless these evil people for million years.
JUST REMEMBER ONE THING. These are all practical effects. No special effects. No CG. All real. All practical - including the bullets and explosions. A brutal story about true events. I certainly would NOT forget this movie.
One extra thing. That COW really was SHOT. No special effects there - like Hollywood. Most likely that cow was already up for slaughter - so they put the cow in this movie instead.
I was born in Russia in 1968 and grew up listening to my grandparents' stories about the war. In 1985, we went to the cinema with college friends in Moscow to watch this film. I left there horrified. And to think that my grandfather was this boy's age at the time.
I pray they lived a nice peaceful life after all they went through. My great grandparents on my mother's side were all German. My grandmother's parents left in 1938. My grandfather's parents couldn't leave until 1943. His brother was even in the Hitler youth. They had to keep him sedated until they were on the ship to the US. I am very proud of my great grandparents for refusing to go along with the nazis. It took years for them to be able to leave Germany but I am glad they did. Very sad they had to leave behind the land of their ancestors because the Nazis. I wish to someday go to that property where my ancestors lived for hundreds of years.
@@jrmckim My maternal grandfather, Volodia, was between 14 and 15 years old and had to run away to avoid being sent to forced labor in Germany. That's why he abandoned my great-grandmother and fled to the Russian resistance. He never saw his mother again, as she died along with Krusk's entire family. My grandmother Katerina's family helped hide Hebrew families. At the end of the occupation she was also orphaned due to the aerial bombing of her village. My paternal grandfather, Lionel, fought with the Belarusian resistance. He was in Berlin in 1945.
russians were did the same war crimes,and even after the war they were leeching europe for 40 years! nazis wasnt even that close to ,how many millions of people been killed by soviet union and communism.
I remember watching this film at the age of 13 after learning about why my mother was so hostile to anyone german. my family is (or rather was) polish-biełorussiyan, i found out that my polish family was all killed in krakówa and my biełorussiyan were massacred in this fashion which is horrible, the only reason my bloodline is around is that my great grandmother fled at 18 just before the war to new york from gdynia . im just glad this movie exists to show people why so many of us are still angry to this day because we cannot ever get our loved ones back. rest in peace
In filmschool we watched this film in the theater. We were 12 students when the film started. 3 students where left (me included) when the film ended and the lights came back on, the rest of the class could not stomach it. This is THE most depressing movie ever made! A masterpiece.
They need to drop out immediately. With such delicate sensibilities they would never be able to make a good film anyway and are probably bound for Hollywood lol I haven't taken classes at university since the mid 90s and this is very disappointing news to hear about our up and coming students.
@@readdeeply9278 You need to have a think about your reply. You sound like a narc with a superiority complex. It is very understandable why some people can't watch a movie like when you know it is all true and actually happened to hundreds of villages in the region.
I watched the movie all the way through. Ate a pizza when it started. No problem. Until the movie ended. I planned to play games with freinds but it took me about half an hour to settle down. This movie is hard to stomach and it leaves you deeply impacted.
I’ve been meaning to watch this film for 20 years. Almost purchased it from Criterion. Heard it was one of the greatest war films ever made. Watched many hundreds of films but never got around to it. Then I find it on You Tube and finally watch it and it turns out to be as incredible a film experience as I had read it was. And what an ending. It’s no wonder that Elem never made another film as he felt he had said everything in this one. A masterpiece. Thank you Mosfilm for making it available to everyone to see.
Я считаю, что это один из лучших фильмов о войне, возможно лучший. В фильме нет военных действий армий противников, но есть ужас, горе. Я смотрела фильм в год его создания, второй раз я нашла силы посмотреть только через 20 лет.
@@yukiaditya7352 I’ve heard rumours that some 8th graders in America were looked after in a mental hospital after watching the movie because they sadly tried committing sucide since they were traumatised
@@yukiaditya7352 Yes definitely, I am now very traumatised trying not to breakdown and it is depressing for Woody to watch me feeling depressed and not knowing who I am anymore. Hopefully I do eventually come around again
The cinematography of this film is absolutely phenomenal. Not many things truly unsettle me, but when the camera stays focused on one of the kid’s faces, I can see the emotion and terror and insanity building inside them. I can’t even watch this in the dark without getting freaked out because the way the camera focuses on their faces makes them look almost inhumane. It just gives this feeling that I can’t explain. All I can think to explain it as is a deep feeling of dread. I have no idea how they were able to portray their feelings so well by just staring into the camera. And the part when they return to his mother’s home and he tried to act normal and the girl knew everyone was already dead. The sound of the flies and the obvious reality that he is clearly losing his mind while she has already lost hers.. I almost wanted to skip that scene because it felt so real but I couldn’t. These kids are probably the greatest actors I have ever seen. This movie is absolutely incredible and more terrifying than any horror movie out there.
I think the sound design deserves a mention too. It's way ahead of its time and way unlike anything from other movies of the 1980's or prior. It's filled with sounds of dissonance and a constant low rumbling similar to that of dark ambient music, sounds of darkness accompanying light moments, and vice-versa, sounds of levity accompanying images of terror. The sound effects are deliberately muddled, as to convey the way those sounds would be heard by a disoriented and terrified witness to the events.
@@ralphshelley9586 American men are snowflakes, who are saved only by the fact that they actually live their entire history on an island that is difficult for barbarians to reach.
After watching Come and See 4 months ago, i physically aged from 21 to 27 just like Floyra did. My aging really affected Woody that he started a war on me and Floyra just a month later; Floyra wouldn’t go to war unless I joined him and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him so I went. Me and Floyra are preparing to reunite with Woody as the D-Day anniversary approaches but the hesitation in Floyra is incredible to see because he refuses to let Woody take me away from him again after everything me and Floyra have gone through together in the last 5 months; throughout the war, I absolutely loved how Floyra jokes about Woody being so horrible to me and thank goodness Woody didn’t hear us talking about him. Come and See (1985) portrays my experience perfectly and it actually gives me PTSD now
When i was a soviet kid in early 80's i asked my grandparents and grandparents of my friends about war. What they saw, some heroic stories. and my friends asked same. But we usually heard just couple of words. Grandfathers frowned and went away to smoke or something and grandmothers sometimes even started crying. Some scars never stopped bleeding.
@@wolfsko7072 Dude, don't smoke that stuff anymore. Maybe Auschwitz or Dohau was built by Russians in disguise? Russians in disguise killed almost 20 million of their population to frame the good Germans?
@@wolfsko7072 By the way, when Russian troops entered Germany, the soldiers who fell for looting, robbery and violence were shot by the "Bolsheviks" in front of the ranks, according to the verdicts of the tribunals.
I was a 90’s kid in Britain and it was exactly the same thing with my Great-Grandad. I remember asking him what it was like during both World Wars and he would always swerve the questions and not give them any time of day. I remember asking my Mum about why he would never talk about it and she said because he doesn’t like thinking about back then. I kind of understood, but not the realities that he faced.
@@CallMeRB Unfortunately, today's politicians are completely different. For them, war is money, ratings, an opportunity to blame their incompetence to somebody else. And there are no more people who can fix their brains.
While I appreciate that so many people enjoy this as a film, it really is more than that. It’s more than a cinephile talking point. It’s more than “the best horror movie ever” or “the most disturbing depressing movie ever”. This film was a statement. A reminder of real history. This was Klimov’s way of de-romanticizing / caricaturing Nazis, as the tradition had been in Hollywood. 27 million people died in the USSR during the war, compared to 400,000 US soldiers in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters combined. The sheer terror of Nazi occupation in the East is something no one in the west can really understand. The stats are clear on the treatment of prisoners and citizens between the two halves of Nazi occupied Europe - the Nazis sought to eradicate the Slavic peoples - Vernichtungskreig, a war of annihilation. The Dirlewanger Brigade was just one group that unleashed this kind of obscene genocide on the people in the East.
It's the purest encapsulation of generational trauma ever put to screen, I should think. It captures so well the horrific lingering psychological impacts left on the USSR by the war, that even decades later were still as raw and painful as they had ever been, both for the survivors and their descendants.
This film is based on real events. This village is called Khatyn in Belarus, 50 km away from Minsk. This action was carried out by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 of the SS Dirlewanger Brigade on 22 March 1943.
its natural to assume that a popular soviet-era movie would add some Russian embellishments about German war crimes but no, the events actually happened more or less as depicted which makes the film even more powerful
@@CoolDrifty there's a reason why soviet censorship refused to publish this movie for YEEEAAARS. Because it also shows soviet partisans in not the best light. They are the heroes of this story in a way I guess... but their actions are extremely disorganised, often reckless or even stupid (like spending time with that Hitler puppet for no reason instead of doing... anything else, then carrying it around only to get blown the fk up with a mine). Taking the kid from his family home is also scary... like they know they're taking him to hell, almost certain death if he's lucky, if not.... Well. Don't seem to care much either, and he's like what, 10? 12? But I like that. As a Pole, I HATE how we glorify stuff like the Warsaw Uprising. People who participated in it are absurdly heroic, like otherworldly brave. And movies about it show them as these Hollywood looking young men and women going to battle with smiles on their faces and dying beautiful deaths in the name of the motherland. But in reality, well... one of the masterminds behind the uprising (can't remember his name now but can find it if anyone's curious) stated that, to paraphrase "The blood of innocent women and children dying fighting the Nazis will convince the Allies and Stalin to grant us independence!". Like this moron actually thought Stalin will be so moved by saying dead teenagers aged anywhere between 6 to 18, boys and girls, that he will just change his mind about colonising Poland. In reality, we should be showing WW2 like this movie did. Like it REALLY WAS. I could rant some more about how important it is for us to understand what war REALLY is like, but... I believe people in this comment section are intelligent enough to understand this.
Without any desire for exaggeration, this film is nothing like any other, on the favourite subject of Soviet Cinema...It's a milestone...A brutally realistic depiction of the invasion of Belarus by the Nazis, filmed entirely on location, that leaves nothing to the imagination. Excellent acting, by an all amateur cast, riveting direction and haunting music, and all the raw violence and madness of a war of attrition such as the Great Patriotic War was...A punch in the gut sort of movie, once seen not very likely to be forgotten any time soon, if only because of its realism and aftertaste, and a whole new concept in war movies, when it was made ( back in 1984-85)...Thank you Mosfilm, for another excellent upload...
The scary thing about this film is that it's real,gritty,and horrifying. It depicts how far the human brain can go into destroying its own conscience. This is what war does to the mind. Never forget that
Hats off to the lead boy actor, the director, the writer, and all the artists that created this MASTERPIECE. This is the most realistic and gripping film I've watched since "The Battle of Algiers." I wish I could say more to express my awe and appreciation for this film.
Absolutely. And the cinematographers with their haunting full-on portraits of the characters and the choreographies. This film is beautiful, crazy and horrifying, all rolled into one. It goes beyond the ideological message and it warns about the spiral of horror that wars inflict on the mind of ordinary people. It makes you think of something different.
@@s.t.santos5928 I might add Threads to that list, and in a different way, Das Boot, The Killing Fields, And Hotel Rwanda. Each of these capture the madness and futility of war with a gritty realism, unvarnished by heroes and glory.🖤🇨🇦
This is the most depressing, disturbing and horrific movie I've ever watched in my life. It truly is a masterpiece of a war film, possibly the best one out there, the acting is phenomenal and the atmosphere is felt throughout the entire film's duration.
The film is mediocre. Sure, its pretty realistic and the last bit with the massacre is a great sequence, but for 80% of the film nothing happens, and there is barely any plot to begin with.
Everyone spoke like it was gruesome, but I am overawed by the poetry and artistry. For a film that is so distinctive visually, I was really struck by the masterful use of sound. Pure art.
It really is beautiful in parts..the Stork appearing randomly, was a surprise, the infusion of colour in the flowers that Glasha carried for example. Amid the muted tones of the film, little things of beauty popped up and I loved the way the camera closed in on certain things, making it seem so real. The scene the where Glasha did that little dance on top of the suitcase was really cute - typical of people finding joy in simple things even when madness is all around.
From a sound design POV, have to agree, being blind, as I'm given to understand the Nazi spy plane was given sounds to make it sound like it was something from another world.
One interesting thing about this movie is this was the last film the filmmaker ever made. Reason he gave for it is he felt like this was it, this was the best movie he could and would ever make and to make more would be futile. This is where it transcends a profession and enters real art.
this is incorrect. Klimov who was part of the Soviet filmmaking system fell out of favour after the end of the Soviet Union and was not given a chance to work again.
@@southpole76 He did want to make more movies but couldn't get them off the ground and then decided he didn't want to make anymore actually because he said everything he needed to say with come & see so it's kind of a bit of both.
51:15 the sense of dread was nearly unbearable when flora first returns home. you know something is terribly wrong and the buildup to the realization that they were all behind the house, dead, the entire time, with the constant presence of the flies was something else
Those are not puppets and toys that lay down on the floor in Flor's house. But Flor's mind does not accept the truth and pictures objects. Glasha on the other hand still has a grip on reality and throws up as she gazes upon the morbid fate that met Flor's family as their desacralized and lifeless bodies rest in that room.
@@millenyon8665 That's what I theorized was actually happening but wasn't quite sure if I was right about it. It dawned on me a little later after they crossed the bog when glasha was screaming about them being dead.
This kid did such a phenomenal job…he was a pitch perfect audience proxy in this film. That look of pure realization and terror afloat in a sea of insanity and ignorance. His face is a perfect cinematic representation for the horrors of war and the savagery of men who have lost their humanity.
I disagree, at least with saving private ryan. Many survivors said that was the most historically accurate movie about the holocaust. I think they are even. SpR is more of the actual war part. CSM Is more of the jew and German perspective and just how vicious the atrocities were during ww2.
@@ryannutton1704they literally shot at the boy actor with tracer rounds 🧌. Also I say SpR is more cinematic action and this is more realistic action. This is Belarus.
Incredible performances across the board but the kid playing Flor just absolutely astonished me. He singlehandedly elevated the medium for child actors everywhere. There's scenes in this film I will truly never forget
This young actor didn't eat for two days then two days he was allowed to eat. He told about this in his interview. How long he did that i don't know. The second trick is that he was hypnotized from time to times as the director worried for his mental health.
@@helloworld-ti5zs That’s nuts! Just days before me and Florya went to war with Woody, we both watched Come and See together so I was hypnotised for my emotional health. The atrocities Woody committed were horrible and Floyra had the most loving heart by covering me into him as events were going on! I’ve never ever since a loving Floyra start lashing out like that before begging Woody to stop it but Woody disobeyed him and kept going for a further 7 months. Me and Florya are truly devastated by that war and we will never forgive Woody for that!
The way Florya disappears into the crowd at the end is so hauntingly and beautifully sad to me. Just another in a crowd of boys and young men equally torn apart by the horrors of war. Each of them with an equally horrifying story to tell.
Spot on. That part was almost the most emotional part of the film for me. The realization setting in that Florya’s story is one of so many as he disappears into the crowd, with no where else to really go… it ripped my heart out.
Whenever I’m having a bad day or am just outright feeling depressed about something. I watch movies and documentaries about war and genocide like these to remind myself that somewhere out there, past or present, other people experienced far worse than whatever it is I’m going through
I’m like that with the war and 9/11, I was born just 9 months after the attacks in 2001 and I’m terrified every time I get on a plane because this event comes to mind. I’m now almost 22, I know why me and 9/11 have a close connection and we’re bonding very well in recent months; I wish the war had that close connection like 9/11 does but now my love for the war has just deteriorated when 9/11 made things okay again. RIP to all who died in the war and September 11th, 2001 (9/11)
@@nicolelawless9942I was just starting 6th grade in Auburn WA, stayed home cause I was not feeling good. I'm sleeping on the couch in the living room and I'm awaken by my father yelling for everyone in the house to come watch the TV, just as I opened my eyes I watched the 2nd plane hit. I'll never forget watching people jump live on air..
@@PNWPATRIOT206 I bet it was very traumatic to watch. On the movie World Trade Centre directed by Oliver Stone who was a veitam veteran actually used real footage of a real victim falling from the tower. I was severely traumatised by it and cried for an entire day because of it. I wished i helped them somehow
This one snuck up on me. I wasn't expecting such realism. The central character, the boy in this film, his performance was absolutely riveting. Truly a hidden gem.
Even though I planned to watch to movie for many months, I procrastinated until today. I cannot describe my feelings as I just finished this movie. This movie is the true definition of horror. The boy's performance is incredible, the amount of emotions he displays on his face is impressive. After watching this movie I am very grateful to live under a roof with food on the table.
I hesitated watching Come and See 6 months ago but I knew I’d get with Florya at some point so I had to. I got the dvd in April just one month before me and Florya would be in a war. It was perfect timing
I remember taking a cinematography class and this was one of the films i recommended everyone to watch along with The Lighthouse and the original Old Boy. Everyone thought i was crazy and i ended with a C in that class because the instructor would rather watch Harry Potter, Disney films, and other things that weren't thought provoking. One person did watch this movie...and she was in awe the entire time and appreciated me recommending it.
I love that we have this film available internationally. Besides that it is a very strong cultural blueprint and cinematic masterpiece, it is also a huge historical memory, which has to be remembered for ages to come. People should know how insufferably horrific the war was.
@@champagnpapi800 Haha, a true Russian spotted - nazis bad, but not when nazis are Russians, correct? In one case horrific, in another "u like being a victim, huh?", lol.
@@froggin-zp4nr Similar to that, Russian case tho is special with that Russification is planned and they do it also in 2024. What they do first thing in occupied territories in UA? Erase everything Ukrainian. They did not invent that approach yesterday.
I saw this film on the BBC in about 1986 late at night i was 15 years old and it left such an impression on me ,i sat transfixed from beginning to end id never seen anything like it before ,and i have to say no other war film has eclipsed its visceral power or shocking epic scenes, the way Flera transforms from idealistic boy soldier to a broken aged shell of a person is devastating and very moving . A true classic in every sense .
@@megacapulet6470I watched it on british TV in the late 80s , I was on leave from Germany, I remember it was on very late but I couldn't turn it off it was so haunting , a very underrated film with superb acting throughout and brilliant attention to detail regarding uniform and weapons etc
@@seanhayes9769 Sounds like you watched it the same night I did Sean , As you say the uniforms and weapons all very authentic , Unbelievably they even used live ammo in some of the action scenes .
My father and his 3 brothers joined the partisans and fought German invaders and their sympathizers. They were all very young, ages 14 to 19. They took no prisoners. They attacked, killed and ran...like animals...living in the forest. Horrors they committed and witnessed are unimaginable. My father survived the war and became army officer. His brothers were killed and forgotten over time. My father could never forget his past. He was a heavy drinker, bad husband and a horrible father. I knew why...I left him alone. Playing with a bomb is never a good idea. His fuse was very short. He would erupt with violence very quickly given the smallest reason. War is hell. There are no winners...only losers. First thing one loses is his innocence.
Wow although I read them all, I think this is the only movie that I've seen where the spoken words are almost completely irrelevant. If you didnt read any of the subtitles and just watched the film,you'd still understand the movie perfectly...the spoken words just aren't needed in this film,I understand it completely without any words at all. Beautiful film, it truly conveys human suffering purely through the visuals and it couldn't be more real. Hats off to whoever made this wonderful film, before I was even born! Much appreciated!
I was born in 2002, literally 25 years after the movie released and almost 40 years later, I get the movie. I love Come and See so much but it is very traumatising
I've watched this movie many times. Was inspired to revisit it by the recent remake of All Quiet on the Western Front. I still feel that there has been no other movie to date that better captures the disarray and oppressive darkness of war. Those of us who've never lived through it will never quite understand, but a film like this certainly takes us closer than any Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's List ever could.
It was a low budget exploitation horror film, which is very different from the movies you mentioned, but you should definitely watch Men Behind the Sun. It has received much of its bad reception due to the graphic nature of many scenes, but the history it reflects is just that. You’ll only watch it once, though, I can guarantee that.
@@pbelancsik I’ve seen it. Yeah, pretty horrible stuff. As I understand, some of the effects were real, such as the scene with the pressure chamber. It’s reported that they used a real cadaver.
@random-cat5425 Also The Pacific mini series. And possibly Band Of Brothers. Yeah Come and See, Saving Private Ryan, The Pacific, Band of Brothers, All Quiet On The Western Front, and Grave Of The Fireflies. They are all the most realistic. Hands down.
To complete my degree of my Minor in History I had to watch this movie as a final for one of my Russian history classes, the professor then made us write a paper on it. This was several years back and I never forgot it, never will. Powerful movie
So was I and I just looked out of the window after the movie, that’s when i started crying and a not so caring emotionless Woody just stared at Floyra hugging me. He absolutely hates me and Floyra together but Woody is not separating us
Man this is awkward. I saw this movie 2 weeks ago in very low quality, and I still thought it was one of the most gripping, intense and well-made movies I had seen in my whole life. Now, Mosfilms itself is putting the movie online. Guess I’ll have to rewatch it, not that it’s a problem considering how good it is. Thanks for the upload!
Same, it was either a 480p version with subtitles or a higher quality with out subtitles, I watched it for the first time a couple of days ago, now I cant wait to see it in a decent quality
Saw a clip of the ending on facebook. Never forgotten it. Never will. Brutally powerful, not the fluffy USA WINS rubbish that has romanticised war for decades.
This film is on a another level I watched it almost 3 years ago and still can feel the terrifying helplessness shocking feelings . This film is exactly how a war film should make you feel . A masterpiece and the acting is 10/10
This movie is beyond words. It encapsulates hell itself. The way that the film changes faces with lighting is insane. For example, Glasha at times is absolutely, STUNNINGLY beautiful in many scenes and then the lighting on her face changes and she literally looks like a snarling demon, without her saying a word or changing her facial expression. Like, for example, in the beginning of the film she is rather demure, hairnet over her hair. Then Florian sees her crying and initially sees a stunning beautiful girl, hair down, big blue eyes, hair like barley, smiling and laughing. Then, in an instant, when he asks her a question, her face (as she is luring him in to make a baby) is like a snarling demon awaiting prey. The film's name is "Come and See"..........for those who don't know, this is a quote from the bible from Revelations 6:7 "And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast [A SNARLING DEMON] say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.' Essentially this passage from the bible is saying that ALL of hell's WRATH was unleashed with this. I could not think of a better theme for Soviet Union 1943 for a film. This embodies EXACTLY what world war two was. This film is a masterpiece. It would probably rank in the top 10 horror films of all time.
I totally regretted watching come and see at night because I ended up with nightmares that ended in tragic way. Every time I slept, I just hear haunting screams of those who died in the real war and I’ve actually wanted them back a few times
Этот фильм прекрасно передает оккупацию белорусской сср, и все ужасы того времени. НО он не передает и 1% того АДА в котором пребывали Народы СССР, бессчётное количество убитых и калек, уничтоженная инфраструктура, Абсолютная демографическая Катастрофа! Это невозможно забыть, это на уровне генов. Мы не можем допустить подобного впредь. Поэтому любая угроза существования для Русских(а именно так называют всех жителей России), будет уничтожатся.
It awakens a repressed feeling that is terribly familiar. It is much more than I ever experienced with a movie. A timeless monument that should be shown and discussed in schools. Thank you so much for loading it up for everybody
4 months after watching this movie, I literally started drinking and Floyra actually found me unconscious at one point that he pulled me upstairs to bed when i stayed over my Nans. Floyra was literally panicking because he had never seen me this ruined that he exposed my drinking to Woody and now 5 months after the incident, me and Floyra ended up at war with Woody but I’m glad I’ve not been drinking for a long time because Floyra hates seeing me ruined and this was not even a year after my illness mind so no wonder it all started. It was a Friday night that a drunken me was watching come and see after Floyra found me unconscious that it caused me to break down in his arms and I told Floyra the full illness story after the incident. He was absolutely devastated to find out I almost died
I have never viewed a film that made me feel as horrified and heart-sick. We have all watched war movies, but nothing like this. I am trying to put into words the effect this film has had on me, but my mind is blown and my soul is weeping. Saving Pvt. Ryan is a Saturday morning cartoon compared to this film. The young actor that played the part of Flor was hands down the best performance I have ever seen, bar none, full stop, period. I will carry the full weight of this film with me for the rest of my life.
@@pezvonpez I was shaking for days after first seeing it, I wasn’t myself and every time I’m told to talk to Mummy, I start having an anxiety attack and then I suddenly break down
I've watched this film multiple times. I don't think I've seen a more powerful depiction of the madness and horror of war. The random cruelty, the other-worldliness of it all. It doesn't seem right to say it's a favourite film, it's not something you can enjoy watching. It's something we all should see.
One of the greatest war movies of all time. The suffering and pain, the sarcasm and joy. Every aspect of live in those days when human life was of no importance...everyone should see this film...especially nowadays...
I thought the church scene was the most traumatising part of Come and See. I remember having nightmares for months watching a heartbroken Floyra go on a grieving rampage after I died, I’ve never seen Floyra look so distraught as he struggled to cope with my death and he goes on a investigation into how my death could have been caused and Floyra’s anger deteriorated when he sees a vision of Glasha working with the Nazis planning my demise. A grieving Floyra angrily runs out of the house with his sisters to find out where Glasha was; the 2 sisters watched as Floyra forces himself through that mud again and the grief is just unbelievable. The most gut wrenching scene was when Floyra notices his sisters weren’t with him, it just hurts to see Floyra trying to hurt himself throughout all because he can’t bare it without me anymore but he still keeps going no matter what. Glasha eventually reunited with a grieving Floyra and it’s haunting the way Floyra tells Glasha “I’ve caught you now and you won’t get away with this!” That scene was so brutal seeing Floyra become pretty violent towards Glasha and I almost threw up watching the blood pouring from Glasha’s chest collapsing into Floyra’s arms the same way as I did and Floyra looked severely traumatised by what he’s done, he was very determined to save Glasha’s life and then, Floyra announces my death to Glasha as she was dying begging Floyra not to go insane but he continued to go nuts after losing me and Glasha. I hate seeing an aggressive Floyra now but he’s trying to tell me that is the reality of war. I swear to god, Floyra’s story in my nightmares is just too gut wrenching to watch
Unfortunately, it is far too rare to see the grimmest/most important realities of war portrayed on film, but "Come and See" succeeds and becomes an eternal accomplishment of true art.
Thank you for posting this in HD quality with English subtitles. I was able to play this in my Modern History class and the students got a lot out of it. This is one of those films everybody should see at least once.
This is the most profound movie I have ever seen. This is the single greatest film I have ever seen. This movie exposes the true horror that was WWII in a way no other film could or probably will again. Thank you to those who created this amazing film!
Come and See is the only war movie to give me true nightmares besides United 93 has. I don’t know how the hell Floyra will cope without me now and I don’t think he’ll never get over that I had died so quickly. It’s going to be so horrible for him I just know it unless he gets back with Glasha but I think Floyra would refuse it because she looks just like me and I was the love of his life.
It's just crazy how the director shocks you all along. In the last scene the director makes you feel like you want them burn, become inhuman yourself, then it stops you with the machine gun scene. A movie never made me feel so angry and ashamed, it makes you feel that every human can become a beast and being human is an active choice
During the movie, I always wanted to blame Woody for why those in the War died but when Woody saw me all wrinkled on my wrists; he knew Come and See had traumatised me. The day after watching Come and See, I cried on my way to work that day and my friends had noticed how wrinkled I’ve become; if I was doing something, I’d randomly break down and all my friends comforted me without me telling them until days after
My step grand father who is still alive today and was around 7 years old when the germans came to the krasnodar region just east of crimea, told me stories about the war. He talked about the hunger he experienced and how people of his village would go at night to the fields to collect food but were shot by the germans when they got caught. He also talked about how the romanian soldiers were acting even worse than the germans. His father was NKVD who was fighting in the war somewhere else at the time. One day somebody from his village snitched on him and his mother about his father and they were taken into a prisoner camp in crimea but got liberated by the soviet army later. He also when he grew older was a soldier in the soviet army and experienced the hungarian uprising first hand. 80+ years later when he told me these stories he still had a sad voice. Even now he still has the trauma of starvation and goes around hidding food from others. There isnt many people that experienced the horror of ww2 that are alive today, i am glad that i was able to hear these stories from somebody who has gone through it first hand.
@@hannahdyson7129 The NKVD was just police. Very few of them of them were really involved in repressions and GULAG system. There's no sense in saying that a local policeman or a traffic guard were not the good guys
This is cinema. This is what the medium was created for. "Some nations don't deserve to exist," says one of the German soldiers towards the end of the film. With the current atrocities being committed in Palestine and elsewhere, this film was perhaps never so relevant since it's release. A masterpiece of our age. And for all time.
An Incredible movie! Before watching it, I thought that " Johnny got his gun" was the toughest antiwar movie, but this one goes beyond; real fear, real terror, real horror; the face of Floryia devastated by the horrors; no rhetoric, no heroes, just the horror of war. Incredible, outstanding. Exceptional steadicam's operators work.
Those who think Saving Private Ryan is the greatest WWII film ever made has NEVER seen this film. I was devastated for days after seeing this. The fact that this atrocity happened over 600 times sickens me.
@@blueguy2128 Inaccuracies and effects, is it all what worries you? I read several sources and interviews, trying to assess how close this film depicted the reality, and the the hard conclusion is the reality was even worse. And it correlates in full with personal experiences as a kid listening to locals who survived the occupation and those who fought, including former partisans (some of them teachers at my school). Belorussia was hit hard, but it was so pretty much everywhere under german occupation. So, come and see.
This is what every war movie should be about. Most war movies glamorize war and portray it as a part of history that we should be proud of when in reality there’s nothing we should be proud about when it comes to war. Sometimes I wonder how those who fought during that war would feel about the way this war is portrayed nowadays. War is misery and suffering.
What’s equally hard to believe is that this war happened only a bit over 40 years before the movie came out. So…a lot of the actors had family who lived and/or died through it, maybe even lived through it themselves. It’s a very chilling realization that I had.
The worst part about this movie is that it isn't fiction. The murders, r@pes and other atrocities actually happened. This is just a pov of what it was like to live through it.
The reality was worse. Klimov refused to show all the truth as people wouldn't bear watching that. 😢 I read the memories of the people from these villages. I wss able to read only few sentences as I burst into tears. In some village Nazis separated Slavic adults from children. Adults were burn in the barn. Children were torn to death by Nazis dogs. 😭 Then I stopped reading . I will never read the book again.
Fun fact: The bullets, the explosions and the rest- everything is real. There were no resources for CGI. So... The poor animal indeed have died there. I am so happy foreigners like our films! Even though there is no dub, only subs, I'm glad the film got 5 million viewers.
This is not a Hollywood version of war. So realistic that many viewers cannot get through it. But if you can stick it out, a very intense moving experience. What unbridled war really does to people.
Самое жуткое, что это не фантазия режиссера и сценариста, это была абсолютная реальность для советского народа. Кстати, один момент, который я понял спустя много лет- в конце фильма Флёра, после всего пережитого, так и не смог выстрелить в маленького гитлера, не смотря ни на что, он сохранил свою человечность.
@@VinnyCarwash-js8op lmaoo, why would I try to look for attention in a coments section with almost 5k submissions? I am surprised people are even reading/finding this 😮 It is an amazing film and it felt apropriat to share my emotions. If you didn't feel this way that is your thing but please don't downtalk people that did.
@@firefox1136 I felt the same way when I first watched it 3 days ago and I was glad to be drinking tonight because that movie really affected me and I’m thinking about getting the movie now for my 22nd birthday in July. I’m sure I can wait that long as I recover after being so traumatised
Please keep this film up forever, I grew up in the UK with Greek origin, my grandparents literally lived through this and it was not taught in most formal education but brushed over, it’s a matter of preserving a part of history that’s very taboo
You have to save it yourself! "Fahrenheit 451" is coming. More books were banned in 2023 in US schools and libraries than any other year for which records have been kept, the American Library Association (ALA) reported on Thursday. Many of the books were targeted because they related to issues of LGBTQ+ communities or race, though the list was broad, including commonly taught novels such as Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird. Like a frog gradually boiling in water, we do not notice how more and more prohibitions surround us! By yourself, everyone by yourself! I must decide what to keep for myself and my descendants! "451 degrees", "1984"), "Equilibrium", "Gattaca"?) No. "Idiocracy" is our future!!!) Don't be under any illusions. Save for yourself - what you want to save!
I' ve seen the worst horror movies, but none of it comes close to the true human suffering here. There is no fiction or glorifying here. Truely left me speechless. What we are capable of as a human race is more horrific then the scariest of films.
The performance the protaganist gave in this movie should be up there with the best acting of all time. His facial expressions in various scenes just really set the tone throughout the movie
What I find even more impressing is the fact that, at the time of filming, Aleksei Kravchenko was only 14, and Come and See was his first ever role. He did go on to become a professional actor after a 15 year-long hiatus later iirc.
Here's a very interesting detail that I haven't seen discussed. At 50:08, you can see that Florya's reflection isn't his current self, but the one we see at the end of the movie. An omen of what's to come. Incredible movie.
I love how when the bombs drop the sound of the film corredponds to damaged ear drums. Like we experience exactly what the main character is experiencing.
Diesen Film vergisst man nie! Das ist unmöglich. Er hat eine Intensität wie ein Faustschlag in der Magengrube. Ein Meisterwerk der den wahren Schrecken des Krieges zeigt.
My grandmothers house near Vitebsk was burnt twice by Germans. She and her two daughters survived hiding in the growing wheat field. She never hated Germans. She said she felt sorry for the young German soldiers becoz they looked like Belarusian young boys. She said communists and fascists are the same demon.
@@glorgis I agree not everyone thinks so. But the West always unites to kill Russians. We in Russia observed your hatred of us with sincere surprise. You will always be our enemies; no Russian person needs to believe you.
This film was my introduction into it and my jaw is still on the floor. I can't properly describe how this film left me feeling. I'll remain quiet while it's still settling into my psyche. Actually, I do have one word.... PROFOUND
Sound in this movie is dead silence or chaos, no in between. It exemplifies true horrors of war. No heroic music, no fanfares, just human suffering laid in front of you.
Exactly like "Apocalypse Now" (F.F. Coppola, 1979) about the Vietnam war, and "Son of Saul" (Saul Fia, 2015, Laszlo Nemes) about Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz II- Birkenau ; the first one (like "Idi i Smotri" Come and See) is eternal, almost biblical in its way to depict war as a calamity, a hellish evil which spawns horror among the earth. The second is incredible because it restrains the spectator to a point of view, in a claustrophobic and realistic way, and it has almost no external soundtrack. Go watch them if you didn't have the chance until now. They're worth watching.
It’s extremely raw
Why? Just. Why? If this isn't proof of alien control I don't know what else is
@@michelle_m4446 Humans don't need aliens to be horrible to each other. It's a story as old as the world.
@@michelle_m4446 I think it's proof of human control, and that's the really sad part
A film that makes me feel the way a war movie should. No sense of happiness of triumph, just loss and regret
It's the first allied movie I see like this, 0 happiness, 0 glory.
Maybe life has took away my sensitivity, but this movie is not sad or violent, it is just weirdo. But must Slav movies are alike. Maybe they try to overcompensate their lack of budget with over acting, but this just makes the actors and actions look cartoonish.
1 out of 10.
If you want some real anti war movie try:
1. Threads bbc 1987
2. Jhony got his gan
3. Born on 4th of July
4. All quiet in the west front
@@oliverbrunninge should watch the original all quiet in the western front that's also true to the ruits made just before ww2 about ww1 on the German side. Banned nearly everywhere for a while then after ww2 it got the light it deserved.
@@USAads2023
>born on the 4th of july
opinion discarded
@hassandoherty7615 That's definitely one that I will watch soon!
Those child actors truly did an outstanding performance!
The boy became a professional actor later, but for the girl it was her only movie she was ever in.
do we know why she did not act in more movies? she was pretty good
@@husseinmoussa2947 It seems she became a teacher, and regarding she was an art student before its likely that she was not the one for fame. After delivering her personal peace of artwork at such a young age, its plausible she decided to spend her later life as a private person.
Most excellent. Thank you for the info. 🙏
agreed.
I was wondering who she was and was she in any other movies. She was beautiful and brilliant in this movie. Great roles and acting by both of them.
My Grandfather was from Belarus and his story is very similar to the boy in the movie. He was 15 and went to join the partisans. His family and village succumbed to the same fate as in the movie. My grandfather was caught by Germans and put into a labour camp. After the war through the Americans he escaped and eventually settled in new zealand..young, no English, no family. He married and prospered in nz...but never returned to Russia..he went through a lot of PTSD and issues but had a relatively happy life and new family. When I was 21 (1994) I showed him this movie. He was quiet throughout, and I saw tears in his eyes at many times. He said this was an incredibly realistic depiction and extremely close to his story and life.
@@KelLAkiwi язык деда знаешь ты понимаешь Белорусский язык твоих предков
This movie is about Ukrainian nationalist.
@@redwater4778 нет, смотри внимательнее
как твоего дедушку освободили американцы это интересно с какого трудового лагеря? я знаю они фоткаться туда ездили а освобождали совсем другие люди
@@daman7273source - "trurst me bro".
films like these needs to exist, its a reminder for some people who seem to forget history pretty quickly
They do and my Come and See dvd is arriving today and I will do everything with it as I did with Saving private Ryan, I’m so ready for the fights between Ryan and Floyra now as I love both of them at the same time
@@krazythedomm
I don’t bother with Ty news anymore because it’s just depressing. I’d rather my anxiety attacks over Come and See other than the news. I have not slept very well for 2 weeks because the movie loves to haunt my mind but I do have a heart for the movie no matter what it did to me recently.
and they need to show them to kids in school. people need to see this reality
WAR BAD!! 111 GET IT?!
Yea, the ones bombing , starving , and ethnically killing Palestinians as if they were just flies….maybe the criminals should remember what it was like when it happened to them and oh I don’t know, stop bombing and starving people?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone look as traumatized and broken as the kid near the end of the film, truly amazing acting
2:01:45 - the best bit of the movie. Great tits!
It wasn't acting, the kid nearly lost his mind during this
@@kamasu4222 good
@@__Baron_Harkonnen__WTAF?😮
@@hannahdyson7129 - shut เt, and check those big ลss tเttเes out - 2:01:45
That intro. There’s something so haunting about just two kids digging up a battlefield, innocently playing with the guns and helmets the dead soldiers left behind. Incredible film
До сих пор на полях сражений проводятся раскопки. Находят останки погибших солдат, вооружение, патроны, предметы быта. Некоторые гранаты до сих пор несут в себе заряд. Это опасная, но нужная работа, выполняемая волонтёрами на собственные средства. Некоторых бойцов удаётся опознать по медальонам и вернуть их семьям спустя десятилетия
Innocently....
kids got SVT-40
me want SVT-40 too lol
Can someone explain to me what Flyora is doing here? 22:18
My grandfather was a child when his father and his entire family were invited under the resettlement program to Kaliningrad (Kenigsberg). Grandfather said that in those places, even a year after the bloody battles, all the surrounding forests were dotted with weapons and military equipment. One day, grandfather and his older brothers went into the forest and found several boxes of household soap there and, delighted with this find, they brought it to their mother. When this "soap" was seen by the elder brother, who fought as a sapper, he turned pale, because the "soap" turned out to be TNT briquettes.
Grandfather, along with his friends, played shooting from an anti-aircraft gun at the sky.
My grandfather also said that many fished with grenades. Almost all residents had machine guns and rifles in their houses. Weapons were needed to protect against armed gangs of flattering brothers, who often raided nearby settlements.
“To love….to bear children” is a quote I’ll always remember. What a masterpiece of a film. Gut-wrenching.
That quote from Floyra will always haunt me because I said that to him in my nightmares of Come and See when I died, Floyra still has my blood on his hands today and he refuses to get it off because it symbolises his love for me. When Floyra reunites with his other girl Glasha, she gets the dreaded news from a heartbroken Floyra about my death and Glasha just evily stares at Floyra and he immediately knew she was responsible. A grieving Floyra starts getting angry with her and he finally gets his ultimate revenge on Glasha but there is such a heartbreaking scene where Floyra hesitates of doing it and then has a vision of me saying “You have to do this Floyra whether you hesitate or not because I love you!” A grieving Floyra finally breaks down and finally brutally stabbed Glasha but he stays with her until the end and then he just leaves her there showing no remorse for what he did. Hopefully for my Come and See nightmares ending will be a grieving Floyra rejoining the partisans he was with earlier and he actually tells the young boy who looked like him about me and he feels sorry for Floyra going through this and they just continued on as normal with a grieving Floyra knowing he finally got the justice he deserves and Floyra might pay a moving tribute to me a year later in 1944. That will be an incredible ending to mine and Floyra’s love story and he’ll never find a girl like me again
@@nicolelawless9942 stop spamming and get off the internet
@@nicolelawless9942 um?
@@k0t0n0ha4
I knew that was coming
@@nicolelawless9942 ... what?
This is a true horror film. No Jumpscares, no scary monster. Real people
Us humans are the greatest monster on earth.
@@juanvargas9 l4d2 reference????
@@juanvargas9oh my bad. İts a game left 4 dead 2
@@senlibars2544 imma be a one man cheeseburger apocalypse
@@rubenbarrera7338 because the devil is working through us
Without question the greatest performance by a child actor ever. No one else comes close
he is the russian version of ricky schroeder
I dunno, Drew Barrymore in E.T was pretty special.
Вы восхищены только игрой,не более. А как вам события,для вас всё происходящее норма?
@@ashpitcher3 ET was sci fi fantasy.....cant compare the 2
@@СветланаЯ-д8ь но ведь идёт обсуждение актёрской игры - мы всё же смотрим фильм. Да он основан на реальных событиях, да любой здравомыслящий человек понимает, что ужасы снятые в фильме - лишь часть, малая часть ужасов тех лет.
Но обсуждение не об этом.
I am speechless. A more powerful film has never been made. And the actor who played the boy was the best I've ever, ever seen. He aged right before our eyes as parts of him were devoured by relentless waves of the naked, unvarnished horror that destroys humans even if they survive, and destroys humanity just the same.
It's an idiotic film from a heroin addicted man who has rich parents. Voted worst ww2 film at cannes 3 years in a row
Was born on the same day as my sister in law
Very well said.🖤🇨🇦
I mean infinity war was pretty powerful thanos did have all the infinity stones. Also broke world record sales. The boy that played spider man aged through cinema time and became a man. Thanos destroyed humanity and we came back.
@@jaimevalencia6271 I have not seen this film, but may have a look for it. Thank you.🖤🇨🇦
Perhaps the first time I truly and completely forgot that I'm watching a movie; the immersion is unbelievable.
It feels like you’re there with Floyra the entire time as you’re witnessing it right in front of you whilst being in Floyra’s prospective
I have never felt more privileged to be an American born in the 2000s. I will never complain again.
WRONG. You have a lot to complain. GO OUT AND DO IT. Unless you free yourselves from your n4z1 government WE abroad will NEVER be free. USA achieved what N4z1 germany tried but couldn't, because the SOVIETS stoped them. They lost the cold war, unfortunately. Look at your immigrant camps, your colonies abroad, your second and third class citizens, your forced labour prisons... ITS ALL THERE BUT YOU DONT REALISE IT CAUSE YOUVE BEEN EDUCATED THIS WAY, JUST LIKE YOUNG GERMANS IN 1940.
@@Riyoshi000 honestly based
The problem is believing something like this could never happen here in today's age
I will.
Or born in Northern Ireland in the troubles in 1972!
This movie really puts into perspective how little time has passed since WW2. A lot of the people who acted in this movie probably experienced the war. The weapons, German/Soviet uniforms and equipment are definitely almost all original which gives an authentic feel. Such a powerful movie, it looks like a modern production thanks to the cinematography.
Many of the extras were survivors of the Nazi occupation. They were not acting, they were reliving the horrors they'd witnessed.
It's crazy that political leaders and media in the west are pushing for yet another world War to pop off.
the actor playing the older german officer was an actual SS member when he was younger, you can look it up
You know they actually shot the hell out of that cow in the movie?
@@fins6191 it was one of the first soviet films where the state studio control was loosened, and the director went nuts
I have never seen a young man age so quickly as in this film. He's a kid in the beginning, playing on a beach. By the end, he looks closer to 40 and is doing what he needs to survive. I wish more people knew about this masterpiece of a film. The surrealness makes it more real in a way. True magic. I wish films like this didn't have to be made but "Come and See" is truly like nothing I've ever seen before.
YESSSS I FELT THE SAME WAY
I saw someone else say that his classmates were shocked and noticed he had aged like that as well
Most people know about it since it’s usually posted as the scariest movie ever made and on all the top ten lists for Halloween and horror movies.
I first saw parts of the church burning scene on a video on Facebook. It made Schindler's list look tame. I'm glad I finally found the full movie.
his hair didnt grow....
Movie and the actors should’ve won an Oscar for this. One of the best films ever made period.
Несомненно!!!
Да кому нужен этот кусок металла?
I doubt that the American institute of propaganda would honor this movie.
The movie speaks for itself. Needs no further confirmation.
It shows human disaster all over. Even the killers in the movie are victims. They have lost their humanity. There is no meaning in this kind of conflict. Only loss. Something that most people will never experience in their life. Which is good. But we need to know that our good lives are not a given.
When I first saw this several years ago I found it so confronting I had to give up, two years later I watched through to the end. My father was in Serbia during WW2 and most of his family were killed or died of hunger. My mother, a non-Serb, said my dad was traumatised and had nightmares about the war for the remainder of his life (he died in late 2008). Watching this gave me the smallest look into what my dad and millions, upon millions of others lived through. I don't know how my father and all those others who survived had the strength and luck to survive the nightmare of war, I am not certain I could have. I hope we and our children never, ever have to live through such events again.
The Criterion 2020 blu-ray release of this film has five mini documentaries which are actually interviews with people who survived their encounter with the SS Einsatzgruppen and the stories they tell are harrowing to say the least. If you can get this blu-ray, it’s well worth the money, but it’s region coded so you’d have to have a region free player.
@@norikotakaya14292 Thank you for the information, I will search it out. Much appreciated.
It's happening again unfortunately. Not that far from where the events from the movie took place
@@daliborsulgostowski907 it was happening for the past 8 years only the most of us were not aware of it. There was no mainstream media cover of the conflict in the Donbas which last since 2014.. Nowdays it is completely biased and selective.
🙏🌹💜🙏
The scene of Glasha chasing after Flyora to find his family, only for her to turn around and catch a quick glimpse of the corpses behind the house will forever be etched into my brain. It took almost no words for that scene, and it is incredibly powerful.
Yea, very traumatising. I’ve not gotten over it
You know the girl at 2:04:36 is also "Gla sha".
This is what will be forever in my brain.
Blood in her mouth
Blood on her legs
Because they throuw her into a "transport truck" with so many men
And a flute in her mouth
I can not find energy or anything else to "let that go"
@@piamoltzau4382
It was the child’s mother not Glasha but it does look like her
Horrifying scene
She never should've looked back
This is how a movie about WW should be made.
Its not about heroes who defeat evil, not a saint who fight for justice. Unlike any other war movie nowadays which glorified wars, this movie depict the cruelty of them as it is.
There are a few films that touch this quality regarding the brutality and futility of war, though only one on my list relates to WWII. Das Boot does not deal with this type of bestial atrocity, but captures in a visceral way life on a German U boat with the same intensity and relentless momentum. The Killing Fields covers the after effects of the War in Vietnam, and Hotel Rwanda also has the same quality of unvarnished raw reality.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 Except Hotel Rwanda was a Hollywood confection made by the anglo-american cabal designed to hide the truth of the atrocities which the CIA and MI5 manufactured for their own despicable ends, the horrors of which continue to this day..
@@simonlee8889 I agree, but they also told the story of the Canadian commander who had his hands tied from any possible action. He suffered terrible PTSD following the genocide. As much as they tried to hide outside instigation, they did capture the sickening result of its full breakout anyone who does a little research will know what was not included.🖤🇨🇦
I would think this is possibly the only 'War Film' where the director has intentionally not used any battle scenes (just showing some of the after affects) & the terrible reality of trying to be brave like the boy Florya but unwittingly just adding more death to a situation that has little sanity or reason.
@@tamarrajames3590 hi there , the 'Killing Fields' has very little to do with the US/Vietnamese war .it was an internal conflict in Cambodia, where the extreme left wing Khmer Rouge ,financed by China took control of the country in 1975. The mass killings (approx 20% of its population) were largely halted in'79 when a Vietnamese force intervened.
I remember when I saw this movie for the first time. I couldn't sleep because of my depression, I started looking for something to distract myself with, and I found this movie. After watching it, I realized that I never had the right to complain about my life
I watch it because I’m sick and tired of my mother re ensuring my health all the time so i confined into Floyra for support instead of her. Whenever I’m yelling with my mother, Floyra hides terrified because he realises I’m protecting him. Once I’m with Floyra though, my mood changes fast because I know he understands me. Even Woody hates seeing me and Florya together because Woody thinks I’m disobeying the Queen’s wishes of Woody looking after me as much as he could and he told Florya “The late Queen would be so ashamed if she saw you two together now!” I broke down and Florya hugged me again. Floyra will never listen to Woody and will always remain at my side no matter what. He knows what love means
"Come and See" is the greatest anti-war film ever made. It's a true masterpiece. Everyone should see it at least once in order to comprehend what war is, and does.
What makes it an anti-war film?
@@DANIELMABUSE don’t get that either…
@@Just_shush_now you didn't see the videos of Nazis burning down villages?
@@KratomFlavoredAdidas how is that anti-war? Seems more of an anti-Nazi movie to me…
Just anti-Nazi. There are lots of wars in human history, but most of them weren't that sick, spit on these sick soldiers and evil countries. God won't bless these evil people for million years.
JUST REMEMBER ONE THING.
These are all practical effects. No special effects. No CG.
All real. All practical - including the bullets and explosions.
A brutal story about true events. I certainly would NOT forget this movie.
One extra thing. That COW really was SHOT.
No special effects there - like Hollywood. Most likely that cow was already up for slaughter - so they put the cow in this movie instead.
Rip cow
They used live ammo?
@@brileymitchell2632 Yes, they did.
@@Parkourboy86 I cried. Poor thing.
I was born in Russia in 1968 and grew up listening to my grandparents' stories about the war. In 1985, we went to the cinema with college friends in Moscow to watch this film. I left there horrified. And to think that my grandfather was this boy's age at the time.
I pray they lived a nice peaceful life after all they went through.
My great grandparents on my mother's side were all German. My grandmother's parents left in 1938. My grandfather's parents couldn't leave until 1943. His brother was even in the Hitler youth. They had to keep him sedated until they were on the ship to the US.
I am very proud of my great grandparents for refusing to go along with the nazis. It took years for them to be able to leave Germany but I am glad they did. Very sad they had to leave behind the land of their ancestors because the Nazis. I wish to someday go to that property where my ancestors lived for hundreds of years.
@@jrmckim My maternal grandfather, Volodia, was between 14 and 15 years old and had to run away to avoid being sent to forced labor in Germany. That's why he abandoned my great-grandmother and fled to the Russian resistance. He never saw his mother again, as she died along with Krusk's entire family. My grandmother Katerina's family helped hide Hebrew families. At the end of the occupation she was also orphaned due to the aerial bombing of her village. My paternal grandfather, Lionel, fought with the Belarusian resistance. He was in Berlin in 1945.
@@jrmckim ❤ u buddy 🙏
russians were did the same war crimes,and even after the war they were leeching europe for 40 years! nazis wasnt even that close to ,how many millions of people been killed by soviet union and communism.
@jrmckim : don’t vote democrat!
I remember watching this film at the age of 13 after learning about why my mother was so hostile to anyone german. my family is (or rather was) polish-biełorussiyan, i found out that my polish family was all killed in krakówa and my biełorussiyan were massacred in this fashion which is horrible, the only reason my bloodline is around is that my great grandmother fled at 18 just before the war to new york from gdynia . im just glad this movie exists to show people why so many of us are still angry to this day because we cannot ever get our loved ones back. rest in peace
In filmschool we watched this film in the theater. We were 12 students when the film started.
3 students where left (me included) when the film ended and the lights came back on, the rest of the class could not stomach it.
This is THE most depressing movie ever made! A masterpiece.
They need to drop out immediately. With such delicate sensibilities they would never be able to make a good film anyway and are probably bound for Hollywood lol I haven't taken classes at university since the mid 90s and this is very disappointing news to hear about our up and coming students.
@@readdeeply9278 You need to have a think about your reply. You sound like a narc with a superiority complex. It is very understandable why some people can't watch a movie like when you know it is all true and actually happened to hundreds of villages in the region.
I watched the movie all the way through. Ate a pizza when it started. No problem.
Until the movie ended. I planned to play games with freinds but it took me about half an hour to settle down.
This movie is hard to stomach and it leaves you deeply impacted.
@@readdeeply9278 try the movie "Threads" then
Depressing but realistic
I’ve been meaning to watch this film for 20 years. Almost purchased it from Criterion. Heard it was one of the greatest war films ever made. Watched many hundreds of films but never got around to it. Then I find it on You Tube and finally watch it and it turns out to be as incredible a film experience as I had read it was. And what an ending. It’s no wonder that Elem never made another film as he felt he had said everything in this one. A masterpiece. Thank you Mosfilm for making it available to everyone to see.
Я считаю, что это один из лучших фильмов о войне, возможно лучший. В фильме нет военных действий армий противников, но есть ужас, горе. Я смотрела фильм в год его создания, второй раз я нашла силы посмотреть только через 20 лет.
One of the best war films without a doubt. Try watching it on big screen like at least 50inch tv, and with good speakers and accoustic. Amazing film.
@@yukiaditya7352
I’ve heard rumours that some 8th graders in America were looked after in a mental hospital after watching the movie because they sadly tried committing sucide since they were traumatised
@@nicolelawless9942 this should be rated R there obviously.
@@yukiaditya7352
Yes definitely, I am now very traumatised trying not to breakdown and it is depressing for Woody to watch me feeling depressed and not knowing who I am anymore. Hopefully I do eventually come around again
The cinematography of this film is absolutely phenomenal. Not many things truly unsettle me, but when the camera stays focused on one of the kid’s faces, I can see the emotion and terror and insanity building inside them. I can’t even watch this in the dark without getting freaked out because the way the camera focuses on their faces makes them look almost inhumane. It just gives this feeling that I can’t explain. All I can think to explain it as is a deep feeling of dread. I have no idea how they were able to portray their feelings so well by just staring into the camera.
And the part when they return to his mother’s home and he tried to act normal and the girl knew everyone was already dead. The sound of the flies and the obvious reality that he is clearly losing his mind while she has already lost hers.. I almost wanted to skip that scene because it felt so real but I couldn’t.
These kids are probably the greatest actors I have ever seen. This movie is absolutely incredible and more terrifying than any horror movie out there.
Americans are lucky they never had it come to our shores. And anybody who tried would get a nasty beat down. Don't mess with American men.
We portrayed cuz Its In Our National DNA,,{{ whole range of compassion and sacrificial feat that were made there 4ALL NATIONS TO SURVIVE.
@@ralphshelley9586 what’s the point to your comment here? 🇺🇸🖕🏼🇺🇸🖕🏼🇺🇸🖕🏼
I think the sound design deserves a mention too. It's way ahead of its time and way unlike anything from other movies of the 1980's or prior. It's filled with sounds of dissonance and a constant low rumbling similar to that of dark ambient music, sounds of darkness accompanying light moments, and vice-versa, sounds of levity accompanying images of terror. The sound effects are deliberately muddled, as to convey the way those sounds would be heard by a disoriented and terrified witness to the events.
@@ralphshelley9586 American men are snowflakes, who are saved only by the fact that they actually live their entire history on an island that is difficult for barbarians to reach.
I've never felt such intense emotions while watching a film. I finished it 15 minutes ago and my head is still spinning. This is actual art. My god.
After watching Come and See 4 months ago, i physically aged from 21 to 27 just like Floyra did. My aging really affected Woody that he started a war on me and Floyra just a month later; Floyra wouldn’t go to war unless I joined him and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him so I went. Me and Floyra are preparing to reunite with Woody as the D-Day anniversary approaches but the hesitation in Floyra is incredible to see because he refuses to let Woody take me away from him again after everything me and Floyra have gone through together in the last 5 months; throughout the war, I absolutely loved how Floyra jokes about Woody being so horrible to me and thank goodness Woody didn’t hear us talking about him. Come and See (1985) portrays my experience perfectly and it actually gives me PTSD now
When the Screams turns into a Silence in the raging fire is such a hellish scene
And I thought plane crash movies were nightmare fuel but Come and See is something you’d never recover from
When i was a soviet kid in early 80's i asked my grandparents and grandparents of my friends about war. What they saw, some heroic stories. and my friends asked same. But we usually heard just couple of words. Grandfathers frowned and went away to smoke or something and grandmothers sometimes even started crying. Some scars never stopped bleeding.
@@wolfsko7072 Dude, don't smoke that stuff anymore. Maybe Auschwitz or Dohau was built by Russians in disguise? Russians in disguise killed almost 20 million of their population to frame the good Germans?
@@wolfsko7072 By the way, when Russian troops entered Germany, the soldiers who fell for looting, robbery and violence were shot by the "Bolsheviks" in front of the ranks, according to the verdicts of the tribunals.
@@wolfsko7072 disgusting. Nazi apologist.
I was a 90’s kid in Britain and it was exactly the same thing with my Great-Grandad. I remember asking him what it was like during both World Wars and he would always swerve the questions and not give them any time of day. I remember asking my Mum about why he would never talk about it and she said because he doesn’t like thinking about back then. I kind of understood, but not the realities that he faced.
@@CallMeRB Unfortunately, today's politicians are completely different. For them, war is money, ratings, an opportunity to blame their incompetence to somebody else. And there are no more people who can fix their brains.
While I appreciate that so many people enjoy this as a film, it really is more than that. It’s more than a cinephile talking point. It’s more than “the best horror movie ever” or “the most disturbing depressing movie ever”. This film was a statement. A reminder of real history. This was Klimov’s way of de-romanticizing / caricaturing Nazis, as the tradition had been in Hollywood. 27 million people died in the USSR during the war, compared to 400,000 US soldiers in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters combined. The sheer terror of Nazi occupation in the East is something no one in the west can really understand. The stats are clear on the treatment of prisoners and citizens between the two halves of Nazi occupied Europe - the Nazis sought to eradicate the Slavic peoples - Vernichtungskreig, a war of annihilation. The Dirlewanger Brigade was just one group that unleashed this kind of obscene genocide on the people in the East.
The film doesn't try to scare you with jumpscares, gore or blood. Just a pure reminder of what happened and a warning for future generations.
mean really get over yourself
That's an amazing explanation!
Wow. That really just hit me & i had to even fact check. Absolutely horrendous 💔💔💔. How can pple be that horrible to others smh.
It's the purest encapsulation of generational trauma ever put to screen, I should think. It captures so well the horrific lingering psychological impacts left on the USSR by the war, that even decades later were still as raw and painful as they had ever been, both for the survivors and their descendants.
This film is based on real events. This village is called Khatyn in Belarus, 50 km away from Minsk. This action was carried out by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 of the SS Dirlewanger Brigade on 22 March 1943.
its natural to assume that a popular soviet-era movie would add some Russian embellishments about German war crimes but no, the events actually happened more or less as depicted which makes the film even more powerful
@@CoolDrifty there's a reason why soviet censorship refused to publish this movie for YEEEAAARS. Because it also shows soviet partisans in not the best light. They are the heroes of this story in a way I guess... but their actions are extremely disorganised, often reckless or even stupid (like spending time with that Hitler puppet for no reason instead of doing... anything else, then carrying it around only to get blown the fk up with a mine). Taking the kid from his family home is also scary... like they know they're taking him to hell, almost certain death if he's lucky, if not.... Well. Don't seem to care much either, and he's like what, 10? 12?
But I like that. As a Pole, I HATE how we glorify stuff like the Warsaw Uprising. People who participated in it are absurdly heroic, like otherworldly brave. And movies about it show them as these Hollywood looking young men and women going to battle with smiles on their faces and dying beautiful deaths in the name of the motherland. But in reality, well... one of the masterminds behind the uprising (can't remember his name now but can find it if anyone's curious) stated that, to paraphrase "The blood of innocent women and children dying fighting the Nazis will convince the Allies and Stalin to grant us independence!". Like this moron actually thought Stalin will be so moved by saying dead teenagers aged anywhere between 6 to 18, boys and girls, that he will just change his mind about colonising Poland.
In reality, we should be showing WW2 like this movie did. Like it REALLY WAS. I could rant some more about how important it is for us to understand what war REALLY is like, but... I believe people in this comment section are intelligent enough to understand this.
@@Viktor-em6xp wasn’t the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 mainly Ukrainians and some Russians? So they were technically massacring their own people
@@CoolDriftyrussian??? We are not russian!!! We are belarusians❤ Khatyn is close to Logoisk. My family is from Logoisk. Close to Minsk
@@tanyasimmelsgaard6723 so? you are the part of triune Russian folk
Without any desire for exaggeration, this film is nothing like any other, on the favourite subject of Soviet Cinema...It's a milestone...A brutally realistic depiction of the invasion of Belarus by the Nazis, filmed entirely on location, that leaves nothing to the imagination. Excellent acting, by an all amateur cast, riveting direction and haunting music, and all the raw violence and madness of a war of attrition such as the Great Patriotic War was...A punch in the gut sort of movie, once seen not very likely to be forgotten any time soon, if only because of its realism and aftertaste, and a whole new concept in war movies, when it was made ( back in 1984-85)...Thank you Mosfilm, for another excellent upload...
The Ascent?
Great movie too...No wonder it was directed by this film's director's wife, Larissa Shepitko and a beautiful Ukrainian woman she was too!...
@@harrys.tottle7779 Indeed...Another fantastic film, directed by Elem Klimov's wife, and the best female director of all time to boot...
I have seen well over 100 war movies but none describe war the way this does. This is war! This is it!
Excellent
The scary thing about this film is that it's real,gritty,and horrifying. It depicts how far the human brain can go into destroying its own conscience. This is what war does to the mind. Never forget that
I forgot :/
مضحك ماتفعله الدول المتطورة الان مثل امريكا وروسيا واسرائيل و الصين و...
It feels real but it's not
@@dieterrosswag933 It's based on very real events
@@anatoldenevers237 Source?
Hats off to the lead boy actor, the director, the writer, and all the artists that created this MASTERPIECE. This is the most realistic and gripping film I've watched since "The Battle of Algiers." I wish I could say more to express my awe and appreciation for this film.
The battle of Algiers
Absolutely. And the cinematographers with their haunting full-on portraits of the characters and the choreographies. This film is beautiful, crazy and horrifying, all rolled into one. It goes beyond the ideological message and it warns about the spiral of horror that wars inflict on the mind of ordinary people. It makes you think of something different.
@@luisbustamante9869 True, the kind of film that PTSDs are made of. It also reminded me of 'The Deer Hunter' and 'Platoon'.in that respect.
@@s.t.santos5928 I might add Threads to that list, and in a different way, Das Boot, The Killing Fields, And Hotel Rwanda. Each of these capture the madness and futility of war with a gritty realism, unvarnished by heroes and glory.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 Thanks. I need to catch up on some of those titles.
This is the most depressing, disturbing and horrific movie I've ever watched in my life.
It truly is a masterpiece of a war film, possibly the best one out there, the acting is phenomenal and the atmosphere is felt throughout the entire film's duration.
The film is mediocre. Sure, its pretty realistic and the last bit with the massacre is a great sequence, but for 80% of the film nothing happens, and there is barely any plot to begin with.
Everyone spoke like it was gruesome, but I am overawed by the poetry and artistry. For a film that is so distinctive visually, I was really struck by the masterful use of sound. Pure art.
1985, how did i not know about this until now
@@commiesnzombies
I didn’t know about it until 4 weeks ago yesterday. I’ve traumatised for that long and it’s horrible
It really is beautiful in parts..the Stork appearing randomly, was a surprise, the infusion of colour in the flowers that Glasha carried for example. Amid the muted tones of the film, little things of beauty popped up and I loved the way the camera closed in on certain things, making it seem so real. The scene the where Glasha did that little dance on top of the suitcase was really cute - typical of people finding joy in simple things even when madness is all around.
@@commiesnzombies same here. I can't believe I have never heard about this film.
From a sound design POV, have to agree, being blind, as I'm given to understand the Nazi spy plane was given sounds to make it sound like it was something from another world.
One interesting thing about this movie is this was the last film the filmmaker ever made. Reason he gave for it is he felt like this was it, this was the best movie he could and would ever make and to make more would be futile. This is where it transcends a profession and enters real art.
( traduction) hai ragione ormai il suo capolavoro era finito e non aveva senso continuare a fare film per soldi
this is incorrect. Klimov who was part of the Soviet filmmaking system fell out of favour after the end of the Soviet Union and was not given a chance to work again.
@@southpole76 Source?
@@voteZDLR seems like youtube does not like links. source: Klimov obituary in The Guardian 4 November 2003.
@@southpole76 He did want to make more movies but couldn't get them off the ground and then decided he didn't want to make anymore actually because he said everything he needed to say with come & see so it's kind of a bit of both.
51:15 the sense of dread was nearly unbearable when flora first returns home. you know something is terribly wrong and the buildup to the realization that they were all behind the house, dead, the entire time, with the constant presence of the flies was something else
Those are not puppets and toys that lay down on the floor in Flor's house. But Flor's mind does not accept the truth and pictures objects. Glasha on the other hand still has a grip on reality and throws up as she gazes upon the morbid fate that met Flor's family as their desacralized and lifeless bodies rest in that room.
@millenyon8665 I didn't understand that part, thank you for the explanation. How very sad 😔
2:01:45 - the best bit of the movie. Great tits!
@@millenyon8665 That's what I theorized was actually happening but wasn't quite sure if I was right about it. It dawned on me a little later after they crossed the bog when glasha was screaming about them being dead.
@@millenyon8665neither did I, omgish so those were his twin sisters?! 😢💔💔
I'm sat staring at 'the end' shaking in a dark room... truly a masterpiece and a film that must be seen by all.
I just noticed like halfway through that the channel didn’t even put ads on the movie. Right on guys
The ads ruin the experience of this traumatising movie
It's Russia's film institute. It's non-profit.
That's the magic of Soviet cinematograhpy. It was created non-profit, and it shall stay that way until the end of time.
UA-cam forces ads to all videos regardless. What the channel owner can control, are the mid-roll ads.
One of the pros of communism lol
This kid did such a phenomenal job…he was a pitch perfect audience proxy in this film. That look of pure realization and terror afloat in a sea of insanity and ignorance. His face is a perfect cinematic representation for the horrors of war and the savagery of men who have lost their humanity.
I disagree, at least with saving private ryan. Many survivors said that was the most historically accurate movie about the holocaust. I think they are even. SpR is more of the actual war part. CSM Is more of the jew and German perspective and just how vicious the atrocities were during ww2.
@@ryannutton1704they literally shot at the boy actor with tracer rounds 🧌. Also I say SpR is more cinematic action and this is more realistic action. This is Belarus.
No, humans don't lose their humanity, for all of this, is human nature.
Этот парень живой . Продолжает сниматься в кино. Посмотри фильм :" 9 рота"
У этого мальчика в концу съёмок этого фильма почти был нервный срыв
Incredible performances across the board but the kid playing Flor just absolutely astonished me. He singlehandedly elevated the medium for child actors everywhere. There's scenes in this film I will truly never forget
This young actor didn't eat for two days then two days he was allowed to eat. He told about this in his interview. How long he did that i don't know.
The second trick is that he was hypnotized from time to times as the director worried for his mental health.
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That’s nuts! Just days before me and Florya went to war with Woody, we both watched Come and See together so I was hypnotised for my emotional health. The atrocities Woody committed were horrible and Floyra had the most loving heart by covering me into him as events were going on! I’ve never ever since a loving Floyra start lashing out like that before begging Woody to stop it but Woody disobeyed him and kept going for a further 7 months. Me and Florya are truly devastated by that war and we will never forgive Woody for that!
i cant believe this is on youtube. but I'm so glad it is. so many more people need to see the real horrors of war.
The way Florya disappears into the crowd at the end is so hauntingly and beautifully sad to me. Just another in a crowd of boys and young men equally torn apart by the horrors of war. Each of them with an equally horrifying story to tell.
All of them probably have nothing left, but they would rather stick together rather than be alone.
Well said brother
Only to come back home and get shot for not looking at Stalin's portrait the right way or some other BS
The wars were such an evil waste of life
Spot on. That part was almost the most emotional part of the film for me. The realization setting in that Florya’s story is one of so many as he disappears into the crowd, with no where else to really go… it ripped my heart out.
Whenever I’m having a bad day or am just outright feeling depressed about something. I watch movies and documentaries about war and genocide like these to remind myself that somewhere out there, past or present, other people experienced far worse than whatever it is I’m going through
I’m like that with the war and 9/11, I was born just 9 months after the attacks in 2001 and I’m terrified every time I get on a plane because this event comes to mind. I’m now almost 22, I know why me and 9/11 have a close connection and we’re bonding very well in recent months; I wish the war had that close connection like 9/11 does but now my love for the war has just deteriorated when 9/11 made things okay again. RIP to all who died in the war and September 11th, 2001 (9/11)
Don't undermine your own feelings just because "other people have it worse". It's unhealthy.
Same here
@@nicolelawless9942I was just starting 6th grade in Auburn WA, stayed home cause I was not feeling good. I'm sleeping on the couch in the living room and I'm awaken by my father yelling for everyone in the house to come watch the TV, just as I opened my eyes I watched the 2nd plane hit. I'll never forget watching people jump live on air..
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I bet it was very traumatic to watch. On the movie World Trade Centre directed by Oliver Stone who was a veitam veteran actually used real footage of a real victim falling from the tower. I was severely traumatised by it and cried for an entire day because of it. I wished i helped them somehow
This one snuck up on me. I wasn't expecting such realism. The central character, the boy in this film, his performance was absolutely riveting. Truly a hidden gem.
Even though I planned to watch to movie for many months, I procrastinated until today. I cannot describe my feelings as I just finished this movie. This movie is the true definition of horror. The boy's performance is incredible, the amount of emotions he displays on his face is impressive. After watching this movie I am very grateful to live under a roof with food on the table.
I hesitated watching Come and See 6 months ago but I knew I’d get with Florya at some point so I had to. I got the dvd in April just one month before me and Florya would be in a war. It was perfect timing
I relate to the gratitude. Made me want to give everyone I love a hug and never let go.
@@aldowilliams4765 I agree, we always gotta appreciate the family and friends we have.
I remember taking a cinematography class and this was one of the films i recommended everyone to watch along with The Lighthouse and the original Old Boy. Everyone thought i was crazy and i ended with a C in that class because the instructor would rather watch Harry Potter, Disney films, and other things that weren't thought provoking. One person did watch this movie...and she was in awe the entire time and appreciated me recommending it.
Your instructor doesn't understand the art of cinema and this film is pure art.
what kind of teacher is this?😂
Bruh such a missed opportunity to both learn art and history
I wouldve been fine the instructor suggests Interstellar or Blade Runner but... Harry Potter? Disney films? Really?
You are in wrong school if your instructor watch Disney and Harry potter
I love that we have this film available internationally. Besides that it is a very strong cultural blueprint and cinematic masterpiece, it is also a huge historical memory, which has to be remembered for ages to come. People should know how insufferably horrific the war was.
Yeah, for example a good reminder that there was a Belorussian language before the total Russification.
@@the_g371 u like being a victim, huh?
@@champagnpapi800 Haha, a true Russian spotted - nazis bad, but not when nazis are Russians, correct? In one case horrific, in another "u like being a victim, huh?", lol.
@@the_g371 Just like a lot of places had languages before English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch etc. completely turned over their culture
@@froggin-zp4nr Similar to that, Russian case tho is special with that Russification is planned and they do it also in 2024. What they do first thing in occupied territories in UA? Erase everything Ukrainian. They did not invent that approach yesterday.
I saw this film on the BBC in about 1986 late at night i was 15 years old and it left such an impression on me ,i sat transfixed from beginning to end id never seen anything like it before ,and i have to say no other war film has eclipsed its visceral power or shocking epic scenes, the way Flera transforms from idealistic boy soldier to a broken aged shell of a person is devastating and very moving . A true classic in every sense .
im 15 too, finished watching it and now, now i would love to punch the guys in my class making fun of all of this in the face
No you didn't. This movie was not shown in the British theatres, and did not see a UK release until 2006.
@@Redstarka22 I know what i saw it was on tv not at a theatre
@@megacapulet6470I watched it on british TV in the late 80s , I was on leave from Germany, I remember it was on very late but I couldn't turn it off it was so haunting , a very underrated film with superb acting throughout and brilliant attention to detail regarding uniform and weapons etc
@@seanhayes9769 Sounds like you watched it the same night I did Sean , As you say the uniforms and weapons all very authentic , Unbelievably they even used live ammo in some of the action scenes .
My father and his 3 brothers joined the partisans and fought German invaders and their sympathizers. They were all very young, ages 14 to 19. They took no prisoners. They attacked, killed and ran...like animals...living in the forest. Horrors they committed and witnessed are unimaginable.
My father survived the war and became army officer. His brothers were killed and forgotten over time. My father could never forget his past. He was a heavy drinker, bad husband and a horrible father. I knew why...I left him alone. Playing with a bomb is never a good idea. His fuse was very short. He would erupt with violence very quickly given the smallest reason. War is hell. There are no winners...only losers. First thing one loses is his innocence.
Sorry to hear that, i wish you a peaceful life full of joy
"There are no winners" except for the ones that win silly!
@@tomman2257 People without functioning brain should not comment.
@@tomman2257 i feel ashamed for people like you.
@@tomman2257You are silly, the regular folks don’t win.
Wow although I read them all, I think this is the only movie that I've seen where the spoken words are almost completely irrelevant. If you didnt read any of the subtitles and just watched the film,you'd still understand the movie perfectly...the spoken words just aren't needed in this film,I understand it completely without any words at all. Beautiful film, it truly conveys human suffering purely through the visuals and it couldn't be more real. Hats off to whoever made this wonderful film, before I was even born! Much appreciated!
I was born in 2002, literally 25 years after the movie released and almost 40 years later, I get the movie. I love Come and See so much but it is very traumatising
I've watched this movie many times. Was inspired to revisit it by the recent remake of All Quiet on the Western Front. I still feel that there has been no other movie to date that better captures the disarray and oppressive darkness of war. Those of us who've never lived through it will never quite understand, but a film like this certainly takes us closer than any Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's List ever could.
This wasn't just a war. Even war has a few moments of etiquette, the Nazis were demons. Absolutely horrid beasts.
It was a low budget exploitation horror film, which is very different from the movies you mentioned, but you should definitely watch Men Behind the Sun. It has received much of its bad reception due to the graphic nature of many scenes, but the history it reflects is just that. You’ll only watch it once, though, I can guarantee that.
Очень рекомендую военные фильмы «Помни имя своё» 1974, «Судьба человека» 1959, «Брестская крепость» 2010, «Крик тишины» 2019, «Поп» 2009, «Щит и меч» 1968, «Иваново детство» 1962
@@pbelancsik I’ve seen it. Yeah, pretty horrible stuff. As I understand, some of the effects were real, such as the scene with the pressure chamber. It’s reported that they used a real cadaver.
@random-cat5425 Also The Pacific mini series. And possibly Band Of Brothers. Yeah Come and See, Saving Private Ryan, The Pacific, Band of Brothers, All Quiet On The Western Front, and Grave Of The Fireflies. They are all the most realistic. Hands down.
To complete my degree of my Minor in History I had to watch this movie as a final for one of my Russian history classes, the professor then made us write a paper on it. This was several years back and I never forgot it, never will. Powerful movie
Elem Klimov is a filmmaker genius. Masterpiece.
Best acting I’ve ever seen in a kid. Me and my dad were left speechless by the end.
So was I and I just looked out of the window after the movie, that’s when i started crying and a not so caring emotionless Woody just stared at Floyra hugging me. He absolutely hates me and Floyra together but Woody is not separating us
Вы заметили только игру? А сами события вас не взволновали?
Man this is awkward. I saw this movie 2 weeks ago in very low quality, and I still thought it was one of the most gripping, intense and well-made movies I had seen in my whole life. Now, Mosfilms itself is putting the movie online. Guess I’ll have to rewatch it, not that it’s a problem considering how good it is. Thanks for the upload!
If this version is the new restoration then it is really worth it, the movie looks amazing
Same, it was either a 480p version with subtitles or a higher quality with out subtitles, I watched it for the first time a couple of days ago, now I cant wait to see it in a decent quality
I mean mosfilm has their old Russian channel and it’s about the same quality for the old upload in come and see
same it left me feeling sick. I have seen many movies about war and loss, but this one truly gets the message across.
same here
This film is humanity's required reading. Absolutely powerful. This will stay with me for the rest of my life.
Saw a clip of the ending on facebook. Never forgotten it. Never will. Brutally powerful, not the fluffy USA WINS rubbish that has romanticised war for decades.
It’s been over 48 hours since I first seen the movie and I’m still very traumatised.
This film is on a another level I watched it almost 3 years ago and still can feel the terrifying helplessness shocking feelings . This film is exactly how a war film should make you feel . A masterpiece and the acting is 10/10
Films like this should be required viewing by every high school and college student in every country.
This movie is beyond words. It encapsulates hell itself. The way that the film changes faces with lighting is insane. For example, Glasha at times is absolutely, STUNNINGLY beautiful in many scenes and then the lighting on her face changes and she literally looks like a snarling demon, without her saying a word or changing her facial expression. Like, for example, in the beginning of the film she is rather demure, hairnet over her hair. Then Florian sees her crying and initially sees a stunning beautiful girl, hair down, big blue eyes, hair like barley, smiling and laughing. Then, in an instant, when he asks her a question, her face (as she is luring him in to make a baby) is like a snarling demon awaiting prey. The film's name is "Come and See"..........for those who don't know, this is a quote from the bible from Revelations 6:7 "And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast [A SNARLING DEMON] say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.' Essentially this passage from the bible is saying that ALL of hell's WRATH was unleashed with this. I could not think of a better theme for Soviet Union 1943 for a film. This embodies EXACTLY what world war two was. This film is a masterpiece. It would probably rank in the top 10 horror films of all time.
I totally regretted watching come and see at night because I ended up with nightmares that ended in tragic way. Every time I slept, I just hear haunting screams of those who died in the real war and I’ve actually wanted them back a few times
Этот фильм прекрасно передает оккупацию белорусской сср, и все ужасы того времени. НО он не передает и 1% того АДА в котором пребывали Народы СССР, бессчётное количество убитых и калек, уничтоженная инфраструктура, Абсолютная демографическая Катастрофа! Это невозможно забыть, это на уровне генов. Мы не можем допустить подобного впредь. Поэтому любая угроза существования для Русских(а именно так называют всех жителей России), будет уничтожатся.
It awakens a repressed feeling that is terribly familiar. It is much more than I ever experienced with a movie. A timeless monument that should be shown and discussed in schools.
Thank you so much for loading it up for everybody
I had a full existential meltdown after watching this movie about 4 or 5 months ago, cried my eyes out. Would recommend.
4 months after watching this movie, I literally started drinking and Floyra actually found me unconscious at one point that he pulled me upstairs to bed when i stayed over my Nans. Floyra was literally panicking because he had never seen me this ruined that he exposed my drinking to Woody and now 5 months after the incident, me and Floyra ended up at war with Woody but I’m glad I’ve not been drinking for a long time because Floyra hates seeing me ruined and this was not even a year after my illness mind so no wonder it all started. It was a Friday night that a drunken me was watching come and see after Floyra found me unconscious that it caused me to break down in his arms and I told Floyra the full illness story after the incident. He was absolutely devastated to find out I almost died
I have never viewed a film that made me feel as horrified and heart-sick. We have all watched war movies, but nothing like this. I am trying to put into words the effect this film has had on me, but my mind is blown and my soul is weeping.
Saving Pvt. Ryan is a Saturday morning cartoon compared to this film. The young actor that played the part of Flor was hands down the best performance I have ever seen, bar none, full stop, period. I will carry the full weight of this film with me for the rest of my life.
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I was shaking for days after first seeing it, I wasn’t myself and every time I’m told to talk to Mummy, I start having an anxiety attack and then I suddenly break down
I've watched this film multiple times. I don't think I've seen a more powerful depiction of the madness and horror of war. The random cruelty, the other-worldliness of it all.
It doesn't seem right to say it's a favourite film, it's not something you can enjoy watching. It's something we all should see.
One of the greatest war movies of all time. The suffering and pain, the sarcasm and joy. Every aspect of live in those days when human life was of no importance...everyone should see this film...especially nowadays...
I would say the best war movie !
2:01:45 - the best bit of the movie. Great tits!
No grand emotional music.Just the horror of war. Disturbing but well made movie! Great actors!
I thought the church scene was the most traumatising part of Come and See. I remember having nightmares for months watching a heartbroken Floyra go on a grieving rampage after I died, I’ve never seen Floyra look so distraught as he struggled to cope with my death and he goes on a investigation into how my death could have been caused and Floyra’s anger deteriorated when he sees a vision of Glasha working with the Nazis planning my demise. A grieving Floyra angrily runs out of the house with his sisters to find out where Glasha was; the 2 sisters watched as Floyra forces himself through that mud again and the grief is just unbelievable. The most gut wrenching scene was when Floyra notices his sisters weren’t with him, it just hurts to see Floyra trying to hurt himself throughout all because he can’t bare it without me anymore but he still keeps going no matter what. Glasha eventually reunited with a grieving Floyra and it’s haunting the way Floyra tells Glasha “I’ve caught you now and you won’t get away with this!” That scene was so brutal seeing Floyra become pretty violent towards Glasha and I almost threw up watching the blood pouring from Glasha’s chest collapsing into Floyra’s arms the same way as I did and Floyra looked severely traumatised by what he’s done, he was very determined to save Glasha’s life and then, Floyra announces my death to Glasha as she was dying begging Floyra not to go insane but he continued to go nuts after losing me and Glasha. I hate seeing an aggressive Floyra now but he’s trying to tell me that is the reality of war. I swear to god, Floyra’s story in my nightmares is just too gut wrenching to watch
@@nicolelawless9942 they did this in France as well. Google Oradour sur Glane!
Unfortunately, it is far too rare to see the grimmest/most important realities of war portrayed on film, but "Come and See" succeeds and becomes an eternal accomplishment of true art.
Thank you for posting this in HD quality with English subtitles. I was able to play this in my Modern History class and the students got a lot out of it. This is one of those films everybody should see at least once.
This is the most profound movie I have ever seen. This is the single greatest film I have ever seen. This movie exposes the true horror that was WWII in a way no other film could or probably will again. Thank you to those who created this amazing film!
Come and See is the only war movie to give me true nightmares besides United 93 has. I don’t know how the hell Floyra will cope without me now and I don’t think he’ll never get over that I had died so quickly. It’s going to be so horrible for him I just know it unless he gets back with Glasha but I think Floyra would refuse it because she looks just like me and I was the love of his life.
Ce n'est pas juste un film de guerre mais un film sur la folie. Un pur chef d'oeuvre.
It's just crazy how the director shocks you all along. In the last scene the director makes you feel like you want them burn, become inhuman yourself, then it stops you with the machine gun scene. A movie never made me feel so angry and ashamed, it makes you feel that every human can become a beast and being human is an active choice
During the movie, I always wanted to blame Woody for why those in the War died but when Woody saw me all wrinkled on my wrists; he knew Come and See had traumatised me. The day after watching Come and See, I cried on my way to work that day and my friends had noticed how wrinkled I’ve become; if I was doing something, I’d randomly break down and all my friends comforted me without me telling them until days after
@@nicolelawless9942 Where are you from?
If provoked yes, but never in a million years..
@@nicolelawless9942 Who's Woody??
@@Владимир-ж4р3т
Not telling you, personal information
A masterpiece by all means.
A delight of cinematography.
Another cinematography merchant...
My step grand father who is still alive today and was around 7 years old when the germans came to the krasnodar region just east of crimea, told me stories about the war. He talked about the hunger he experienced and how people of his village would go at night to the fields to collect food but were shot by the germans when they got caught. He also talked about how the romanian soldiers were acting even worse than the germans. His father was NKVD who was fighting in the war somewhere else at the time. One day somebody from his village snitched on him and his mother about his father and they were taken into a prisoner camp in crimea but got liberated by the soviet army later. He also when he grew older was a soldier in the soviet army and experienced the hungarian uprising first hand.
80+ years later when he told me these stories he still had a sad voice. Even now he still has the trauma of starvation and goes around hidding food from others. There isnt many people that experienced the horror of ww2 that are alive today, i am glad that i was able to hear these stories from somebody who has gone through it first hand.
The NKVD were not the good guys .
I am truly sorry for what your family had to go through, though
@@hannahdyson7129 The NKVD was just police. Very few of them of them were really involved in repressions and GULAG system. There's no sense in saying that a local policeman or a traffic guard were not the good guys
@@hannahdyson7129 why do you think so?
@@vagabondgrishater955 They're equivalent to the SS.
You should record his stories before he passes, so the can be preserved for future generations
This is cinema. This is what the medium was created for. "Some nations don't deserve to exist," says one of the German soldiers towards the end of the film. With the current atrocities being committed in Palestine and elsewhere, this film was perhaps never so relevant since it's release. A masterpiece of our age. And for all time.
An Incredible movie! Before watching it, I thought that " Johnny got his gun" was the toughest antiwar movie, but this one goes beyond; real fear, real terror, real horror; the face of Floryia devastated by the horrors; no rhetoric, no heroes, just the horror of war. Incredible, outstanding. Exceptional steadicam's operators work.
Both movies are horrifying in their own right
Those who think Saving Private Ryan is the greatest WWII film ever made has NEVER seen this film.
I was devastated for days after seeing this. The fact that this atrocity happened over 600 times sickens me.
That movie has a ton of inaccuracies as well for hollywood effect. Very disappointing
It was the greatest war movie about the Americans on D-Day. This one is something else entirely.
Saving Private Ryan is sensationalist, self-congratulatory, Hollywood garbage
@@blueguy2128 cloud you please Tell me 3 inaccurancies?
@@blueguy2128 Inaccuracies and effects, is it all what worries you? I read several sources and interviews, trying to assess how close this film depicted the reality, and the the hard conclusion is the reality was even worse. And it correlates in full with personal experiences as a kid listening to locals who survived the occupation and those who fought, including former partisans (some of them teachers at my school). Belorussia was hit hard, but it was so pretty much everywhere under german occupation. So, come and see.
This is what every war movie should be about. Most war movies glamorize war and portray it as a part of history that we should be proud of when in reality there’s nothing we should be proud about when it comes to war. Sometimes I wonder how those who fought during that war would feel about the way this war is portrayed nowadays. War is misery and suffering.
Wow this movie is so timeless... Hard to believe it's almost 40 years old
What’s equally hard to believe is that this war happened only a bit over 40 years before the movie came out. So…a lot of the actors had family who lived and/or died through it, maybe even lived through it themselves.
It’s a very chilling realization that I had.
@@azrieldawson7377, режисер этого фильма был партизанов во время войны. Это был его последниймфильм, больше он не снимал.
I can’t believe it either and I’m watching the movie on it’s 40th Anniversary this year
The worst part about this movie is that it isn't fiction. The murders, r@pes and other atrocities actually happened. This is just a pov of what it was like to live through it.
The reality was worse. Klimov refused to show all the truth as people wouldn't bear watching that. 😢
I read the memories of the people from these villages. I wss able to read only few sentences as I burst into tears.
In some village Nazis separated Slavic adults from children. Adults were burn in the barn.
Children were torn to death by Nazis dogs. 😭
Then I stopped reading . I will never read the book again.
@@helloworld-ti5zs he already battled the government for about 8 years to release the film, adding more atrocities would never let it go out
its just that the germans never did that but the bolsheviks did, to their own people. but yeah history is written by the victor as napoleon ones said
@@helloworld-ti5zs lies lies and more lies
@@wolfsko7072 bruh
Oh wow. That's so awesome that the film was released on UA-cam for free. It's such an important film that needs to be seen.
Fun fact: The bullets, the explosions and the rest- everything is real. There were no resources for CGI.
So... The poor animal indeed have died there.
I am so happy foreigners like our films! Even though there is no dub, only subs, I'm glad the film got 5 million viewers.
a fun fact?? seriously ._.
@@Gabrielangelcastro1996 mb not fun, but a fact :D
You (like the aged boy, centre of the film) cannot unsee or fully process these scenes. A horrific film. Unforgettable.
50:48 the way they look at each other here, flor coming home to find his family gone while in denial about their fate… it chills me to the bone
I didn’t understand that part. Why was she smiling?
@@FifteenRavens she knew, but didn't want to tell him. So she's doing her best to hold it together.
@@lordfatcock Looks like she’s about to burst out laughing.
@@FifteenRavens to me its an agonisingly painfull fake smile, She Is absoloutely forcing herself not break down and admit the truth to him.
@@FifteenRavensTo me it doesn’t look like a laugh, She looks like she’s about to have a breakdown
This is not a Hollywood version of war. So realistic that many viewers cannot get through it. But if you can stick it out, a very intense moving experience. What unbridled war really does to people.
Самое жуткое, что это не фантазия режиссера и сценариста, это была абсолютная реальность для советского народа. Кстати, один момент, который я понял спустя много лет- в конце фильма Флёра, после всего пережитого, так и не смог выстрелить в маленького гитлера, не смотря ни на что, он сохранил свою человечность.
It is indescribable how frightening and haunting it is to see kids in a battlefield.
Great movie, I cried.
No, you didn't cry. You're just looking for attention. This isn't about you.
@@VinnyCarwash-js8op lmaoo, why would I try to look for attention in a coments section with almost 5k submissions? I am surprised people are even reading/finding this 😮
It is an amazing film and it felt apropriat to share my emotions. If you didn't feel this way that is your thing but please don't downtalk people that did.
@@VinnyCarwash-js8opwho hurt you? Was it that bed side you stubbed your toe on yesterday?
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I felt the same way when I first watched it 3 days ago and I was glad to be drinking tonight because that movie really affected me and I’m thinking about getting the movie now for my 22nd birthday in July. I’m sure I can wait that long as I recover after being so traumatised
what an absolutely horrific masterpiece. a dire warning and present to humanity. the moral zenith of historic cinema
Please keep this film up forever, I grew up in the UK with Greek origin, my grandparents literally lived through this and it was not taught in most formal education but brushed over, it’s a matter of preserving a part of history that’s very taboo
You have to save it yourself! "Fahrenheit 451" is coming.
More books were banned in 2023 in US schools and libraries than any other year for which records have been kept, the American Library Association (ALA) reported on Thursday. Many of the books were targeted because they related to issues of LGBTQ+ communities or race, though the list was broad, including commonly taught novels such as Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Like a frog gradually boiling in water, we do not notice how more and more prohibitions surround us!
By yourself, everyone by yourself! I must decide what to keep for myself and my descendants! "451 degrees", "1984"), "Equilibrium", "Gattaca"?) No. "Idiocracy" is our future!!!) Don't be under any illusions. Save for yourself - what you want to save!
14.02.2003 aquarius 14.02.2003
I' ve seen the worst horror movies, but none of it comes close to the true human suffering here. There is no fiction or glorifying here. Truely left me speechless. What we are capable of as a human race is more horrific then the scariest of films.
The performance the protaganist gave in this movie should be up there with the best acting of all time. His facial expressions in various scenes just really set the tone throughout the movie
What I find even more impressing is the fact that, at the time of filming, Aleksei Kravchenko was only 14, and Come and See was his first ever role. He did go on to become a professional actor after a 15 year-long hiatus later iirc.
Here's a very interesting detail that I haven't seen discussed. At 50:08, you can see that Florya's reflection isn't his current self, but the one we see at the end of the movie. An omen of what's to come.
Incredible movie.
Thank you, I couldn't figure out the well scene.
I thought that was the case! thanks for pointing it out!
One of the reasons we should watch masterpieces like this on a big screen in a cinema. There is so much detail!
@@limfilms1089 actually, I caught this detail while watching on my phone lol but I totally agree.
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I love how when the bombs drop the sound of the film corredponds to damaged ear drums. Like we experience exactly what the main character is experiencing.
The scenes in the bogs and thicket are some of the most raw brutal film making I’ve seen for this period. A masterful film.
Diesen Film vergisst man nie!
Das ist unmöglich.
Er hat eine Intensität wie ein Faustschlag in der Magengrube.
Ein Meisterwerk der den wahren Schrecken des Krieges zeigt.
Müsste im Geschichtsunterricht gezeigt werden...
My grandmothers house near Vitebsk was burnt twice by Germans. She and her two daughters survived hiding in the growing wheat field. She never hated Germans. She said she felt sorry for the young German soldiers becoz they looked like Belarusian young boys. She said communists and fascists are the same demon.
This film showed the attitude of the so-called “civilized” West towards us Slavs. We won't forget
@@glorgis I agree not everyone thinks so. But the West always unites to kill Russians. We in Russia observed your hatred of us with sincere surprise. You will always be our enemies; no Russian person needs to believe you.
@glorgis Then why do so many westerners want to see slavs die by the millions? Or arabs for that matter?
I remember seeing this as a young boy & it completely blew me away.
Never forget the horror of war.
Thanks for the upload Mosfilm
Elem Klimov: El mejor director de cine del planeta! 😎
Mis mas profundos respetos al heroico pueblo Ruso!
One of the greatest films ever made. Certainly the last 50 or so years. Certainly one of the most important.
Soviet cinematography is absolutely underrated
This film was my introduction into it and my jaw is still on the floor. I can't properly describe how this film left me feeling. I'll remain quiet while it's still settling into my psyche. Actually, I do have one word.... PROFOUND
Soviet?
@@Bflatest Elem Klimov was a Soviet / Russian filmmaker, this was his final film
@@Bflatest right, Soviet!
@@Bflatest so many soviet movies are great. Im glad I was growing up with them