This is based on actual events that happened on the Eastern Front in WW2. The Nazi deeds were monstrous.The suffering of the civilians and common atrocities were done in the name of Hitlers crazy ideology. Ethnic cleansing and industrialized murder were commonplace. This is based on the brutal reality that caused casualties on this front of more than 30 million . Mans depravity as seen thru the eyes of a teenager. A coming of age movie set in an apocalyptic time period. This movie has some Russian quirks but still rates as a monumental film.

Classic Russian cinema is THE ARTSIEST one in the world. It is built on basic graphic elements and a powerfull symbollic of the simple and direct script. On the other side, the Russian war movies of the past were quite often drowned in pathetic and overemphasized patriotism, which lead to a significant diminishing of their art qualities. All of this can not be said for the one of the most powerful and most painful to watch war stories of all time, "Come and see". Elem Klimov filmed a merciless and never ending torment for the average viewer, bombarding him from the very start with unbearably intense editing of every imaginable war horror from the deepest levels of hell. Although basically empty in the script line, "Come and see" will extinguish your soul and blow you away with one of the most powerful endings in the history of war cinema. "Come and see" is one those movies you will watch only once, but will never forget.

The movies starts rather slowly and just like a real storm rises up and up until it riches you with all its power and takes you up into the bloody, dusty, dirty and cruel atmosphere of the war.There are some exaggerations which I think are not unrealistic but maybe probability of their occurrence in a sequence is not high, even in the world war. However, I think it is intended and the scenes are masterfully developed to compress more necessary plots in the limited time of a movie.you will be introduced with the horror of war in the 30 minutes of the movie in which you haven't experienced before. No matter hoe many movies you have seen or how many stories you have read, you will have a new experience here for sure. Don't miss this movie

This movie captivates to tell us the story of Belarus during WWII. Simply mesmerizing, brutally real, highly visual truth. It doesn't leave a good impression, but it shows how broad human nature is. Both, the evil and the good. Highly recommend watching it to anyone interested in history and the art of filmmaking.