
Klimov co-wrote the screenplay with Ales Adamovich, who fought with the Belarusian partisans as a teenager.

ago The Germans portrayed in the movie "Idi i Smotri" or "Come and See" (one of the most disturbing, gloomy and brutal war movies I have ever watched) are supposedly (I've read this on numerous occasions, without any definitive proof) based on the infamous exploits of the SS-Sondereinheit Dirlewanger. He suddenly becomes convinced he knows where they're gone, and pulls her to run with him to an island in a marshland. ", For eight years, filming could not begin because the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) would not accept the screenplay, considering it too realistic, calling it propaganda for the "aesthetics of dirtiness" and "naturalism". Originally called Kill Hitler, this film ranks with Kon Ichikawa’s Fires on the Plain as a World War II nightmare of humanity pushed beyond its limits. User Ratings When you watch Come and See, put these statistics into perspective. I have rarely seen a film more ruthless in its depiction of human evil. Their journey unravels in successive calamities. It is unutterably depressing, because history can never undo itself, and is with us forever. As a local man warns and as Flyora’s own mother pleads, merely digging up the gun is a dangerous idea it will raise suspicions among the Nazis.

A truly harrowing soundtrack and sound design that compliments the film so well. It won the Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film, and was also shown in several European independent cinemas again. The desperate, tragic situation leads to a series of horrible "adventures. There's a sequence in which Florya becomes involved with some cows who will become food for starving troops. User Reviews Four Golden Retrievers and 4 American Bulldogs were used for the parts of Shadow and Chance. Chapter 6, verses 7–8 have been cited as being particularly relevant to the film: And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see!" Adamovich was already a culture hero for his fact-based novel The Khatyn Story, a 1972 rendering of a village massacre and conflagration, which also featured a protagonist named Flyora, and he became a pioneer of documentary journalism with his 1975 epic about the Nazi slaughter of Belorussian villagers, Out of the Fire (co-written with Yanka Bryl and Vladimir Kolesnik). Would the pilot actually home in on targets as slight as these boys? The FAQ items below may give away important plot points.
