Come and See - Idi i Smotri - GÃ¥ och Se (great russian war movie

One of the best war movies ever! Not many knows about this film, it's not that known. It's nothing like the common WWII films produced in Hollywood. It's better, darker.. more disturbing. You'll think about it long after you've seen it. I had to shrink it a bit, but it's the whole DVD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a review I found at IMDB: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the greatest of all war films, Klimov's stunning work stands amongst such works in which the horror and sorrow of conflict are made fresh over again for the viewer, left to stumble numb from the cinema thereafter. Produced for the 40th anniversary of Russia's triumph over the German invaders in WW2, based upon a novella by a writer who was a teenage partisan during the war, the propagandist use to which it was later put - when the GDR was still in the Eastern Bloc, citizens were forced to watch this to warn them of another rise of fascism - does not impair its effect today at all. It echoes intensity found in another masterpiece by the director. Klimov's shorter Larissa (1980) is a remorseful elegy to his late wife. Poetic and very personal, its sense of shock anticipates the heightened anguish that ultimately reverberates through Come And See. Through his images, the director stares uncomprehendingly at a world where lives are removed cruelly and without reason, if on this occasion not just one, but thousands. At the heart of the narrative is Floyra, both viewer and victim of the appalling events making up the film's narrative, his history a horrendous coming-of-age story. It begins with him laboriously digging out a weapon to use and much changed at the end, he finally uses one. As he travels from initial innocence, through devastating experience, on to stunned hatred, in a remarkable process he ages before our eyes, both inside and out. His fresh face grows perceptibly more haggard as the film progresses, frequently staring straight back at the camera, as if challenging the viewer to keep watching; or while holding his numbed head, apparently close to mental collapse. Often shot directly at the boy or from his point of view, the formal quality of Klimov's film owes something to Tarkovsky's use of the camera in Ivan's Childhood, although the context is entirely different. The film's title is from the Book of Revelations, referring to the summoning of witnesses to the devastation brought by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 'Come and See' is an invitation for its youthful protagonist to arm up and investigate the war, but also one for the audience to tread a similarly terrible path, witnessing with vivid immediacy the Belorussion holocaust at close hand. Here, the intensity of what is on offer justifies amplification by the use of a travelling camera, point-of-view shots, and some startlingly surreal effects pointing up unnatural events: the small animal clinging nervously to the German commander's arm for instance, soundtrack distortions, or the mock Hitler sculpted out of clay and skull. Main character Floyra is the director's witness to events, a horrified visitor forced, like us to 'see' - even if full comprehension understandably follows more slowly. For instance during their return to the village, there is some doubt as to if Floyra is yet, or will be ever, able to fully acknowledge the nature of surrounding events. In one of the most disturbing scenes out of a film full of them, Glasha's reaction to off-screen smells and sights is profoundly blithe and unsettling. So much so, we wonder for a brief while if the youngsters really know what is going on. Its a watershed of innocence: one look back as the two leave and the reality of the situation would surely overwhelm Floyra - just as later, more explicit horrors do the viewer. Come And See was not an easy shoot. It lasted over nine months and during the course of the action the young cast were called upon to perform some unpleasant tasks including, at one point, wading up to their necks through a freezing swamp. Kravchenko's face is unforgettable during this and other experiences, and there are claims that he was hypnotised in order to simulate the proper degree of shell shock during one of the major early sequences. The sonic distortion created on the soundtrack at this point later appeared to a lesser extent in Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, as did elements of a much-commented scene where a cow is caught in murderous crossfire. Klimov's camera ranges through and around the atrocities, although one doubts that a steady cam was available. By the end Florya is isolated from humanity, technically as well as mentally, by a striking shot that excludes the middle foreground. Disturbingly expressionistic though these scenes are, others such as the scene where Florya and the partisan girl Rose visit the forest after the bombing, achieve an eerie lyricism that are however entirely missing from the Hollywood production. And whereas Spielberg's work concludes with a dramatic irony that's perhaps a little too neat, contrived for different audience tastes, Klimov's less accommodating epic finishes on a unique, cathartic moment - no doubt partly chosen to avoid any bathos after events just witnessed, but one which sends real blame back generations. Hallucinatory, heartrending, traumatic and uncompromising, such a movie will not to be all tastes. It certainly does not make for relaxing viewing, although those who see it often say it remains with them for years after. This was Klimov's last film for, as he said afterwards "I lost interest in making films. Everything that was possible I felt had already been done," no doubt referring to the emotional intensity of his masterpiece, which would be hard to top. By the end of their own viewing, any audience ought to be shocked enough to pick up a rifle themselves and vengefully join the home army setting out to fight the Great Patriotic War - a necessarily stalwart response without limit of participation, symbolised by the director who tracks a camera through the dense forest before finally rejoining a column of soldiers heading to the front. If you feel, like I do, that any real war film should succeed in conveying the power and pity of it all, then Come And See is an absolute go and watch. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy! Please help me with the seeding after you're done downloading. Peace

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Raul_Anakin (2007-05-25)

Maybe I should be more clear...
They speak RUSSIAN.
The text is ENGLISH
No other options than that...
Now you know.

Midi-Me (2007-06-18)

I've been looking for this everywhere.
Please, please keep on site and I promise I will seed it!
Many thanks.

 FaeGiN (2007-08-10)

Wow thanks. I already downloaded an avi of this but would like this one better. Cheers!

gahack (2007-08-29)

Thank you sir!

brydland (2007-10-23)

Remember i saw this movie, it must have been in the late eighties, and I have been looking for it since then. Extremely good! Hits you in another way than Private Ryan/ Schindlers list ect. does.
Highly recomendable!!!!!

FluffyDragon (2007-11-06)

Subtitles are hard of soft? e.g. you can choose just russian language without english subtitles?

Raul_Anakin (2007-11-22)

Im not 100% sure. You should be able to choose. I dont remember, but subs are rarely hard on a dvd you buy from a store. But like I said, not sure.

tonyf69 (2007-12-10)

I saw this movie several years ago and it left a deep impression on me. I didn't know it's title but have just found it here after about 15 years of searching. I can't thank you enough for posting this. Please seed and when complete I promise to seed for as long as possible.

Kottkvarn (2008-01-21)

Whoa total opposite of feel good movie. Good to watch after having seen to many movies with german main characters.

malanzirotti (2008-04-19)

Raul: what kind of file is this? When I started downloading it with Azureus downloading software, I noticed it was a "non recognizable file type" that would not be directly recognized and played by the VLC software. So, I got discouraged. What software does one need to play it? Thanks.

pryll (2008-05-27)

probably it is that you have FAT32 or something. Take a look here: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm
You can convert it to NTFS, if you have xp you can take a look here: http://kadaitcha.cx/ntfs.html
of course check out microsofts webpage if youre on pc. I dont know much about it myself but you can google - lots of info out there

pryll (2008-05-27)

By the way - fantastic upload, maybe the most feel-badmovie I´ve ever seen. Never been in a war myself (except with my wife) but I imagine this movie comes close to the real thing.

gerry310184 (2008-07-17)

I downloaded this movie yesterday. Every time i try to open the file my computer tries to burn a copy of the movie for me. What is the problem here? Could it be that the file is too big?

Raul_Anakin (2008-08-01)

Get a program called Magic Disc (bundles with magic iso) and then you just right-click the iso-file and choose to mount it. It works like a virtual dvd-player.
Or else, just burn it with Nero and watch it.

 minOdroL (2008-09-20)

Thanks alot, looks interesting!
Thumbs up for uploading this :)

malanzirotti (2009-01-02)

Klimov's Come and See is film making at its best, a rare masterpiece. Thank you, Raul. Film lovers, I recommend that you download The Ascent by the Russian director Larisa Shepitko, Klimov's wife. It is a superlative WWII film too.

Porphyrogen71 (2009-01-15)

thank you, this is great !

extrsurf (2009-02-11)

Yes this is best war movie ever, very terrifying
Thanks!

erik5263 (2009-04-21)

Thank you for great movie! I saw it in eighties when it came out and I remember it was shocking then even in Estonia where I live. We were part of the USSR then and I have seen many WW II movies before made by russians but it is definitely the best of them because of the fresh and different and honest point of view to the war itself. Highly recommended to everybody. War is terrible event.

cosmos79 (2009-08-28)

Fantastic upload! Gracias Raul.

fredfan (2011-02-15)

Looks like 4:3 aspect ratio. Original language stereo soundtrack only with hard coded English subtitles. Seems good, but I haven't yet watched it. Thanks.

 lopow (2012-07-31)

After seeing this movie, I firmly believe that Hollywood, with its crappy and pathetic war movies, should be disbanded.