![]() ![]() Flyora, hearing this, attempts suicide out of guilt, but Glasha and the villagers save and comfort him. Flyora sees the village elder, badly burnt by the Germans, who tells him that he witnessed his family's execution and that he should not have dug up the rifles. They are soon met by Rubezh, a partisan fighter, who takes them to a large group of villagers who have fled the Germans. The two become hysterical after wading through the bog, where Glasha then screams at Flyora that his family is actually dead in the village, resulting in the latter attempting to drown her. As they run from the village in the direction of the bogland, Glasha glances across her shoulder, seeing a pile of executed villagers' bodies stacked behind a house, but does not alert Flyora. Denying that his family is dead, Flyora believes that they are hiding on a nearby island across a bog. Flyora and Glasha travel to his village, only to find his home deserted and covered in flies. Bitterly disappointed, Flyora walks into the forest weeping and meets Glasha, a girl working as a nurse for the partisans, and the two bond before the camp is suddenly attacked by German paratroopers and dive bombers.įlyora is partially deafened from the explosions before the two hide in the forest to avoid the German soldiers. When the partisans are ready to move on, the commander, Kosach, says that Flyora is to remain behind at the camp. Flyora becomes a low-rank militiaman and is ordered to perform menial tasks. The next day two partisans arrive at Flyora's house, to conscript him. ![]() A single reconnaissance aircraft of this model repeatedly appears in scenes flying above Flyora's head throughout Come and See The boys' activities are noticed by an Fw 189 reconnaissance aircraft, flying overhead.Ī Focke-Wulf Fw 189. One of the boys, Flyora, finds an SVT-40 rifle. Their village elder warns them not to dig up the weapons as it would arouse the suspicions of the occupying Germans. In 1943, two Belarusian boys dig in a sand-filled trench looking for abandoned rifles in order to join the Soviet partisan forces. It has since come to be considered one of the greatest films of all time in the 2022 Sight & Sound directors' poll, it ranked 41st. The film mixes hyper-realism with an underlying surrealism, and philosophical existentialism with poetical, psychological, political and apocalyptic themes.Ĭome and See received generally positive critical reception upon release, and received the FIPRESCI prize at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. The film's plot focuses on the Nazi German occupation of Belarus, and the events as witnessed by a young Belarusian partisan teenager named Flyora, who-against his mother's wishes-joins the Belarusian resistance movement, and thereafter depicts the Nazi atrocities and human suffering inflicted upon the Eastern European region's populace. Klimov had to fight eight years of censorship from the Soviet authorities before he could be allowed to produce the film in its entirety. ![]() Its screenplay, written by Klimov and Ales Adamovich, is based on the 1971 novel "Khatyn" and the 1977 memoir I Am from the Fiery Village ( Я из огненной деревни, Ya iz ognennoy derevni), of which Adamovich was a co-author. Come and See ( Russian: Иди и смотри, romanized: Idi i smotri Belarusian: Ідзі і глядзі, romanized: Idzi i hliadzi) is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova.
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