Reference Film: VII – COME AND SEE – IDI I SMOTRI by Elem Klimov

COME AND SEE (1985)
Directed by Elem Klimov
Also Known As:
Иди и смотри (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Come and See (USA)
Go and See
Runtime: 146 min
Country: Union Sovietic
Language: Russian/ German
Colour
Sound Mix: Stereo

Cast:
Aleksei Kravchenko as Florya Gaishun (as A. Kravchenko)
Olga Mironova as Glasha (as O. Mironova)
Liubomiras Lauciavicius as Kosach (as L. Lautsyavichius)
Vladas Bagdonas as (as V. Bagdonas)

Summary
If you hate violence and brutality then you certainly won’t want to see this. This Picture set in 1943 occupied Byelorussia is most probably the most true to life war movie ever. The director pulls no punches in how bad times actually were for peasants and partisans alike as German and collaborators show the viewer how low and depraved a fascist military machine actually is.

The best scene involving the Red Army Commander was when they had captured an Einsatgruppen Unit, and the SS soldier, who knew they were facing death was allowed to speak, after there own Commanding Officer was pleading pitifully for his own life. The SS soldier tells his captors that they are sub-human and that there peasant belief in Marxism was grounds enough that they should be eradicated. The Red Army Commander then in just a few words tells his men, that they are not just fighting for Socialism, but also the right to exist. What happens after...well you'll have to see.