Our Dead Nazi Summer series has so far mostly focused on films that underline the central concept: it’s fun to watch Nazis get what’s coming to them, and there’s a lot of fascinating cultural psychology behind WHY this is a generations-deep lane of amusement. But it’s also crucial to keep our eye on the ball with regard to the seriousness of the project… there’s no underplaying the (in)human evil that Nazism represents, and with that in mind we are humbled at the opportunity to include this famously beautiful, brilliant and above all brutal antiwar masterpiece.

 This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s Joan of Arc) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camerawork and expressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors who took eight years to approve its script, COME AND SEE is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made. (Janus Films)

“Klimov’s dramatic vitality, his control of shifting tones, and his mastery of surprise are what galvanize COME AND SEE. Terrifying as this movie is, we always want to know what happens next.” – Film Comment

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