How Come and See Answers the Baby Hitler Question (Film Analysis) 

"The worst thing that evil people can do is to turn you into one of them." Brilliant!!

Florya is my vote for the greatest performance in cinema, it boggles my mind that a kid could convey deep existential horror the way he does. It feels 100% authentic and is frankly terrifying at times.

I saw this movie at a live screening. After the credits rolled, the entire place was silent, everyone just walked out slowly. It was a silent procession after a rollercoaster of suffering.

1/3rd of the Belarus' population was killed in WW2. The way the villagers are killed in Come and See is just 1/600 villages that were burned that way.

This movie really hit me years ago, I'm from belarus so knowing my ancestors went through something alot similar. For me to be here is always insane to me. They made this movie like this because so many people went through something like this. The message at this end is that anyone can do something so terrible.

One of the things that has marked me the most in recent times, was when, out of morbid curiosity, i went down a rabbit hole of nazi accounts on twitter that i found deep in replies. All of them were so open with their hatred, but the one that affected me the most had a profile picture of the young ss officer in the scene just before he dies. It really put things in perspective. This person saw the same movie as me, but he most likely cheered at every bit of suffering inflicted on florya and the population, and felt pride in the final speech before the germans were gunned down. His hate is not abstract, not detached. He can look at the most vivid face of pure suffering inflicted on a fellow innocent human, and his only reaction is to laugh.

"The worst thing evil people can do to you is turn you into them", this hit extremely hard.

"No clue how someone came up with these ideas" when speaking about the barn scene - there were countless of such instanced waged by nazis. My great grandpa always told stories about what he saw in the war. One of them I remember well - it was a well full of kids's bodies

The final Hitler poster scene really impacted me and was so jarring to the carnage the viewer just witnessed. The reverse of Hitler’s life signifies that no amount of brutality, revenge, or gunfire will undo what happened or will rewrite the things that culminated into WW2. There’s also so much controversy over humanizing Hitler in media and I think Come and See did it perfectly: both acknowledging Hitler’s humanity and not disrespecting his victims in the process

This and Grave of the fireflies are two of the most devastating films I have ever seen. Witnessing the fate of kids in these films, a very innocent part of me died with both of these films' endings. Thank you for analysing this one.

The moment that stuck with me the most is his friends stepping onto a mine. Seconds before they were talking fondly. They were a plucky group of scavengers on a quest. Then boom. In an instant half of them are dead.

I don’t know how anyone can say that any war movie like saving private ryan can be the best war movie when come and see exists, it shows the truth of war with no patriotism and glory to muddle the horrors

The image of the girl with the whistle in her mouth is forever burned into my memory.

My father was exceptionally physically and mentally abusive to me and my other three siblings. He always spoke of how his father was an alcoholic, and his mother used to beat him with rose bushes (however the hell that even works...?). Whenever those long, intimate conversations with friends broaches that subject, I always make sure to communicate a motto I came with after suffering through living with such a man: "The hottest corners of hell are reserved for those who have had the worst kind of pain imaginable inflicted upon them, and then choose to inflict that pain onto others." Hearing you say the words you did at 11:19 has me feeling very very validated. What an intensely moving notion. I loved your breakdown on this film!

I'm from the city of Brest (Western Belarus) and it crushes me knowing that a lot of people don't have a clue what was really happening 80 years ago at the eastern front. The very title of this film is quite symbolical. Everyone should come along and SEE for themselves. See what humans are capable of. See the very core of what shall never be forgotten.

A film everyone should watch once. But boy is it like getting dragged across concrete watching it. Hard to call it a good movie but it’s definitely a impressive movie with incredibly thought provoking matter

Its a great movie because it dispells that sentimental and illusionary notion that all those atrocities must have been committed by some deeply evil people clearly intent on causing the maximum suffering possible. The truth is that anyone can commit atrocities, ruin lives and cause untold amounts of pain, and many times even do it in full belief that they are in the right.

Stalingrad wasn’t just the deadliest battlefield on the Eastern Front, it was the deadliest battlefield in the entire history of mankind.

5:35 This scene hit me really hard and is honestly horrifying in a way. To me, this scene displays everything that makes a child a child and exactly what is being stripped away. Watching the two smile and dance with joy as if nothing happened, you start to realize that this is unfortunately a scene that could only exist with children.

As the brazilian philosopher Paulo Freyre wrote: "When education isn't liberating, the dream of the oppressed, is to became the oppressor". The kid grown up in a enclausurating and hopless world, the only thing he learned was violence and cruelty, the fact that, in the very end, he figured out in what he was becoming, shows how much he learned about said world, and himself.

The image that has stucked with me the most is at the end when Florian reencounters the girl... Such a devastating image, so harsh and cruel.

When Hollywood hands out Oscars it should have gone to both the film and the boy. Haunting and intense. :(

I feel like films like this need to be required watching in this day and age. Many of us in America especially are so separated from the horrors of war that are so often glorified in our nation and our media. It’s easy to glorify war when you’re not around to see the horrors of it, and the impact on those just trying to live their lives. Great video!

This film and "Threads" are probably the darkest, most humanistic, and most difficult films to watch ever made. Nice job on the review.

I was obsessed with this movie at one point and was reading discussions and comments about it and many people from the Western countries were often surprised by the plot and seen it an fictional, they were like "wow the creators came up with such horrors!"😨 when in reality that's just how the Eastern Front was. People often get so focused on the Holocaust as the main horror of the WWII, they forget what a meat grinder the Eastern Front was (more than 1 million people have died in the Stalingrad battle alone!) and how many civillians have been killed there in the 40s - millions and millions, and how Slavs were seen and treated the same way as Jews.

I watched this movie by myself when i was doing a Russian course in 2002. I bought it on sale, figured it would be something to watch on a Friday night after school finished. I knew it was a war movie, but figured it was something like an action flick. Nothing could have prepared me it. I watched it once, and wasn't okay for the rest of the weekend. I kept the movie, but couldn't watch it again

During the massacre scene those weren't though up acts, talk to anyone who had family from the eastern frony. Those things happened.

I’m a fan of disturbing films and extreme cinema and this one was easily the most harrowing experience I’ve had with film. Good lord was this brutal. Masterpiece

This film is one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time. Absolutely staggering. The nazi dragging a woman into the barn to burn her and all the others alive, gripping her by the hair like a sack of potatoes but stopping to get a light for his cigarette from a colleague, mid task....

" The worst thing that evil people can do is turn you into one of them. " ... such a true and almost obvious statement ... but shockingly eye-opening

The worst irony of the Dirlewanger brigade is that most of the soldiers were Eastern Europeans, these guys just did not care. When even the rest of SD thinks you’ve lost it, you’ve absolutely gone crazy.

Quite simply one of the great films in cinema history. Period. The two best war films I've ever seen were each, respectively, directed by one married couple - husband Klimov's Come And See and wife Larissa Shepitko's The Ascent. Both should be seen every few years by, basically, everyone who can handle it. These are two films I'd call perfect. Would absolutely love for you to analyze The Ascent, as well. Both films remind us there is nothing glorious about war.

I watched this film a month ago or so. I loved it from the beginning. It's absolutely mesmerizing. The sheer violence revolved my guts however it's so wonderfully shot that it's impossible to look away and you have to come and see. But the finale of the film it's just superb! Gotta be one of the greatest films in cinema history and in Russian cinema.

I think a better question is, "Would killing baby Hitler actually change anything?" Sure, Hitler gave the orders, but if all of the Germans refused, nothing would happen. The atrocities of WWII were carried out by enthusiastic collaborators. The social forces and the environmental, economic, and cultural conditions at the time made these sorts of things an inevitably. Eugenics was a huge thing back then, and was only soured for people by the Nazis actions. You're telling me if we had killed Hitler as a baby, someone wouldn't eventually do something like the Holocaust?

7:05 it’s not only the guilt. It’s also the pain of his damaged hearing next to the wailing grief screams around him

The moment that sticks in my head the most is when Glasha comes with blood pouring out of her thighs and blowing the whistle at about the 2 hours mark

Regarding 4:30: The Passion of Joan d'arc probably relies on human facial expressions just as much to tell its story, if not more. Maybe it gets a bit of a handicap since it's a silent film and doesn't have audible dialogue but still, there are so many closeups of faces going through strong emotions.

8:45 They didn't come up with those ideas, they actually happened. You gotta remember, it's a soviet movie, the peopel that LIVED those horrors were not even that old yet. And it's not like american vets, no, they were villagers, grandmas, mothers, sons, everyone directly suffered those things and they when the war was over, life went on.

We've all led sheltered lives. WWII was the rule not the exception. The brutalization of the weak by the strong is the lot of the vast majority of humanity throughout history. At least in the first world, we live in a brief and precious period of relative calm and peace and prosperity.

It’s a brilliant movie. The actor that played Floriya was so good. It was a very artistic depiction from the director. What struck me is that you never really see the violence occurring, but you get to see just before or after it has occurred, allowing your mind to fill in the horrific details. The plane overhead lent to the feeling of hopelessness of Floriya’s situation - escape is impossible and death is inevitable. Any movie buff should definitely watch this one. It is absolutely captivating from the first minute the last. I’ll occasionally lose focus during a film but the one makes that impossible; you are fully immersed in the mind of Floriya. You feel what he feels.

I've been on a tear, watching Holocaust survivors give their firsthand accounts of how their lives started out normal and then the horrific descent into hell. Their stories, as much as this film, remind me that I must never be part of the madness that is hate. Also, burning people alive in barns and churches seems to have been a frequent Nazi tactic, judging by all of the various accounts I've heard. This movie brought that ti life and its something I'll never forget.

This is one of the heaviest war movies ever made. It doesn't pull punches and fully shows the brutality and senseless evil of war.

My grand grand parents both were kids, when their families were hanged and shot in public by nazis in Belarus. They were starving and wandering all alone among the burnt villages, asking for potato skin and boiling it with grass as a dish. After war, my grand grand mother always gave money for those who asked for it - because she actually knew, what is the real need and the real help from people. We will never forget, what nazis and their collaborators did to our people, to Russian, Ukrainian, Belarus, and all other smaller soviet brothers.

my understanding of the ending was just that all this suffering cant be undone. once the genie is out of the bottle all hell is breaking loose. I guess I missed all those parts. Great vid!

I liked the movie a lot but didn't know how to describe it's artistic narrative. You really hit on the topics well, showing your appreciation for it, and how it made you feel. There's definitely different ways to interpret it but you really summarized it in a way I could only imagine, thanks!

What’s wild about that scene in the field with the tracers was that those were real machineguns firing real bullets. Among the best films I’ve ever watched.

I saw this film for the first time back in the 80s. It is devastating and was an awaking simultaneously. The impact was and is unforgettable. Your video summary is a terrific precis of it. Thank you.

damn that was an incredible analysis. I've been putting off watching this movie for years and now I think you've made me feel like it might actually be worthwhile. 10/10

2:17 he actually asked "did you poop yourself?" "Full pants?" Im not even joking

Very brutal and realistic movie. One of the best (anti) war movies every made

Phenomenal, watching Zone of Interest did something to to reignite my interests and ever since I have been on a big WW2 kick over the past few months. Come and See was recommended on Reddit and I watched it but so much of it didn't make sense until seeing your analysis here. Great job!

a month or two ago, i clicked on this video. about 10 seconds in, i went and watched the film, and i was so utterly affected and transformed by the experience that i forgot to watch this video until now. i had to search again for this, and i'm glad that i did. the movie stuck with me, through every passing week, and i've been through a lot of very bad things in that time. it was almost a comfort to have such a dark, transformative piece of art looming in the back of my mind. i've made plans with my family to watch it with them on saturday, and i am so excited to see it again. something this deep and difficult to unpack deserves much of my time, i think. i love what this video has to say, too, i think it's such an excellent unpacking of this heavy material.

This is one of the most intense movies I've ever seen. It's brilliant in its subtlety, how the things that you DON'T see or hear in the film conjure up your own images of fear and horror on a very primal level. The first time I saw it was about a month or two ago, and about a third of the way through, I realized that the way they shot it had a way of pulling the viewer in, and making you feel like you weren't even watching a movie anymore, but looking into a mirror. It also made me curious to learn more about what WW2 was like from the perspective of someone from that part of the world, and for an American who's from a military family, that was a very sobering rabbit hole to go down. It's a great film, but if you haven't seen it, just know that it is definitely not an easy watch.

wow what an in depth analysis. I didnt get the baby Hitler thing at the end upon first watch, now the film is even better. Thank you! :)

this is a masterpiece of a film and one i’m sure i will not be ready to watch again anytime soon. the most striking scene to me was the final scene, where florya and the other resistance fighters disappear into the woods. he merges with the group and becomes indistinguishable from them. he becomes a real soldier, not the singular hero he childishly imagined at the beginning of the film. the story is no longer about him, but about all of them, who have no doubt witnessed similar atrocities that have changed them within and without. despite their collective suffering and the uncertainty of their futures, they continue on. not for glory or fame, but because it’s the right thing to do. amen. great analysis! liked and subscribed. :3

The ending is haunting. The way the camera flyers aimlessly through the woods to ghostly music and it finally finds Flora who joins the Partisans then they disappear the trees.

thank you. I watched Come-And-See many times, but you identified deep meanings.

didn't watch the video yet but i like how "the baby hitler question" is a legitimate statement one can make

I legitimately could not figure out where you were going with this at first. Without paying very close attention to the ending, it seems very easy to miss what you’re actually seeing and what it means. You really helped explain it to me

the title of this video hit me like a psychic wave of energy that almost made me pass out, thank you

I’ve watched this film for the first time on the 9th of may last year. On the Victory day that was corrupted by existing war-hungry government. I’m not a fan of horrors and violent movies, so my friend tried to tell me not to go, I’m too tender soul for this. But I knew I had to see it. It was shown in a secret place, there were about fifteen of us young people. By the end we were all crying, some of us screaming, some chugging vodka to numb themselves. I tried not to cry as much as I could, but then there was this scene with a girl with a whistle stuck in her mouth. And I couldn’t hold it anymore. Even when I remember it now, a year and a half later, it’s right before my eyes and I can’t stop to hyperventilate and sob. This film is truly a masterpiece, the most devastating thing I’ve ever seen

A huge thank you for analysing this one!

Thanks for the video, the conclusion almost made me cry.

Fantastic analysis. Really enjoyed this, and your incredibly thoughtful insight.

You are a phenomenal analyst.

They used their atmosphere really well in this movie. Its just disturbing. Even in the times of "peace" in the movie it just has this sickly/snuff film vibe about it. This is the type of movie that i Heavily recommend against watching if you are tripping on psychedelics. If you know what i mean you know what i mean.

This is honestly one of the few movies I've watched once but can't watch again. It is so viscerally terrible to sit through that I can't bring myself to go through it again

Thank you so much for this video essay. I learned about this movie for the first time about an hour ago and went on a rabbit hole. I know I can go watch it for free right here on YT but I am not brave enough. Still I wanted to learn more about the movie and message and this was perfect. Thank you.

If you have no clue how someone came up with the ideas of the massacre scenes. You need only look into the histories of the people there. I remeber an interview with a Norwegian SS soldier that served on the eastern front. He said they burned whole villages in churches like in the movie. And that they would many times arrange gladiator fights to the death for the jewish men, saying that the winner would live, only to kill them all in the end anyways

Come and See is the kind of movie I have to see through video essays because I know I won't be able to handle watching it on it's own

Great analysis Guide to Kulchur has a good breakdown of the movie as well

Beautiful video for a great movie, Its a bummer soviet era cinema isn't talked about more often

Klimov's "Come And See" and his wife's "The Ascent" are masterpieces of reflecting on War. ❣️☭

That is why I don’t watch American movies about war… there is no glory or courage in war

I first watched Come and See, without subtitles. I admit, I didn't really know what was going on, in the way of dialog, but in a way, the scenes seemed more intense. The second time, the film still blew me away. The actor who played Florya, is amazingly talented in this

This was an amazing video! I just finished watching ‘Come And See’. Amazing film!!!!

the joyous scenes feeling psychotic is exactly what i was thinking - the part where glasha starts tapdancing was so insanely eerie it nearly made me turn the film off

The barn scene got to my soul . This same thing happened in what is called Ohio in the United States. In 1787 American Col. M. Crawford led an expedition against the Native peoples they ran across. They would trap them in their homes and burnt them down. Then the European settlers built on top of the ashes. It is not discussed in American history at all. The nations attacked were the Mingo, Wyandotte,Delaware, and Sandusky Seneca. Crawford was later captured and slowly tortured to death by Native women. My Aunties were some of the women who did it. Benjamin Logan also did the same. P.s. Ohio was promised to be the 14th state used for Native Americans only. Now today 12 /10/23 Palestinians are experiencing the same. All 3 groups fighting against those who were /are too greedy and want what doesnt belong to them. Every member of the IDF should be made to watch this and Apocalypse Now. Free Palestine!

This explains things in the film very well for me. Thank you.

What about the blonde girl walking out with blood coming down her legs? She was extremely traumatized. This is really cleared everything up for me. I'm Glad I wasn't the only one who needed clarification. What a crazy psychological movie.

Regardless of how you feel about the movie, that young man played his part very well.

Come and See is one of the best movies that i ever seen!

Literally Gotta be one of the best videos I’ve ever seen…💯

excellent video my bro, please, keep them coming!

I think Floria pulling the gun from the sand represents childbirth. A warrior is born.

This is a movie I don't think I can ever watch again. It destroyed me. I never once thought about the end scene being hopeful, just paralyzing. Maybe I'll be able to see that interpretation in a decade after this film has stopped terrorizing me but I just don't know

Excellent review. Thank you.

The way he slowly dropped all of his weight as to signify the complete death of innocence within himself, the “bottom of the abyss”. Made me cry too damn hard, this movie is a blessing, as well as a curse. Alexei’s portrayal of anguish, yet you KEEP. Moving. FORWARD Because you HAVE TO!!

I don’t know if I’m exactly an empath- literally feeling the pain of others, and I don’t know if it can truly exist when it comes to feeling something as extreme as what victims of hitler’s agenda went through. But I do know that even witnessing re-enactments of something like this just breaks a part of me. In middle school (I’m in my mid 30’s now) I remember we had a holocaust survivor come and speak to us in our auditorium. We had a few hundred students and we all got to shake his hand at the end. I was one of the last in line. I had already cried, fighting not to cry out loud. Even as a little girl, I’ve never wanted to be seen crying. By the time I got to shake his hand, I just involuntarily burst out sobbing. He just held onto my hand and patted it with his other hand. I don’t remember what happened after that anymore, it’s been so long. Unfortunately I don’t remember his name anymore either. I’m positive he’s passed away by now. But I wish I had the chance to see him again and tell him so many things. One thing that’s always stuck out in my mind is how bad I felt, sitting there being comforted by the person whose story I’m crying over. I wanted to give him comfort, but all I could do was just stand there and bawl. Even if I had a chance to do it over; to give him all of my compassion and to tell him what an impact he made on me- on so many people, I doubt it would go differently. At least I’m led to believe that as just typing this, I have tears rolling down my cheeks. I guess if anything, I can only hope my tears were enough to tell him what I couldn’t get my voice to speak. After explaining all of that, I know I can’t handle watching this movie. But I’ll keep the people who truly lived it in my heart.

I read the ending as flyora losing his individuality to become a true soldier as he had always dreamed. After the hitler sequence the camera loses him in the woods momentarilly as he becomes absorbed into the unit and disappears into the column of soldiers. Maybe he drew an ethical line at killing baby hitler, gaining purpose, direction, and a sense of honor...or maybe he realized he was finally broken enough to kill a child, holding that final shot not out of compassion, rather because shooting a poster for revenge is a childish fantasy. He is ready for the real thing now.

Truly a masterpiece. One of the great films of cinema. Totally unforgettable. I watched it with my son (he was seeing it for the first time), and he couldn't speak afterward. If you haven't watched it - DO!

Brilliant analysis of this movie. And yes, I agree that the message is to not let evil done to you, make you evil. There are some horrifically haunting scenes in this movie, but I'm sure they pale in comparison with the actual horrors people lived through. It is a bittersweet realization that the human psyche is as capable of heroically clinging to humanity as it is of normalizing ugly beliefs and uglier actions. I almost envy those who still believe in demons. Knowing the truth about what humans are capable of doing to each other is a jagged pill to choke down.

Great film… powerful and the child acting is remarkably remarkable

My review of the film (spoilers in the lower parts): 'Come and See' (1985) Review Come and See is a Soviet film from the year 1985. It was directed by Elem Klimov and the screenplay was written by Ales Adamovich. As children, Klimov had to flee Stalingrad on a boat across the Volga with his mother, while Adamovich's experience directly relates to the story of the film. The title comes from the Book of Revelation: “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, ‘Come and see.' And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.” The story is set in occupied Belarus during the Second World War. It begins on a sandy beach, where our young protagonist, Flyora, a 15 year old boy, together with another boy are digging up artefacts. They find an SVT-40 rifle, and Flyora keeps it. After this, partisans come to visit his house. They take him into the woods as a squire, where he meets Glasha, a girl of about the same age. They meet and form a connection, alternately crying and hysterically laughing over their circumstances. They enjoy their time in the woods together but a bombing attack and a German paratrooper drop scatters them. Flyora and Glasha return to Flyora's house, where an eerie quiet is all that is found. They are happy and glad to find a meal to eat, but wonder where his family and the others have gone. (The film becomes darker around here). On the way out of the village, Glasha notices a pile of bodies behind Flyora's house. The two of them break down hysterically and are found by a partisan, who takes them to his camp. An old man badly burnt blames Flyora for digging up the rifles and causing the events. At this point Flyora is given a mission, to tag along with a motley crew of partisans. Their job is to try and seize some food in a warehouse. They make a mock Hitler out of clay and put a grenade in it as a booby trap in an effort to ambush a German convoy, but everything goes badly wrong when mines suddenly detonate on the road. Flyora and the surviving partisan try to take a cow back from a village as food, but along the way the partisan and cow are killed by machine gun fire. When Flyora awakes from sleeping, he meets a peasant, and then the Germans arrive in large numbers in trucks. The peasant takes him in and tells him to keep quiet. The Germans and their local collaborators round up everyone in the village and herd them into a large barn, with the promise they would be "sent to Germany for work". An SS officer tells them in Russian that they can leave the barn through a window if they leave their children behind. Flyora and a couple of others get out. The rest refuse. The Germans throw grenades and Molotov cocktails into the barn and then shoot at it until everything is silent. Flyora and a few others are spared for the amusement of the German troops. He staggers away and some hours later finds that the partisans have ambushed an SS convoy made up of some of the same troops. They gather round and the Germans and collaborators beg for mercy, which is not granted. Flyora, deeply traumatised by this point, now walks around under the bridge where the partisans are. He finds a portrait of Hitler, this portrait below, with the text reading "Hitler the Liberator". www.posterplakat.com/content/1-the-collection/posters/0-pp-284/PP284.jpg He fires his first shots of the film into Hitler's face as a surreal and chaotic montage of Nazi Germany and Hitler's life plays in reverse interspersed with his anger and shooting. The partisans call for him to keep up, and he follows them along. They walk off into the forest, and again in the next shot, as it turns to snow. I had heard a lot about this film and wanted to see it, being a WW2 history buff and a WW2 film buff, for quite some time. Some of you have probably heard of it as well. Its reputation precedes it as a brutally graphic depiction of the worst crimes of Nazi Germany, but the film is more than just that. I was expecting this part, of course, but all in all the violence does not take up most of the film, only portions. The thing I love most about this film is its surreal nature, and the way how close up expressions of Flyora and Glasha are constantly used to take the viewer out of the moment into a kind of dream-like state. Half of the film feels plainly realistic, and that half is mainly those parts which have more people in them, whereas in the scenes with Flyora and only a few others, the dream-like state is re-entered. Sound is used wonderfully to produce an ominous or a disturbing tone in certain scenes. Sometimes the sound is so subtle you can barely notice it, but it is there: a kind of unsettling rumbling barely perceptible in the background, or a ringing tone. All the audio and visuals come together to put the viewer not only in the location, but also with Flyora's mind, and his mental state, becoming more and more traumatised and less connected with reality throughout the film. The movie is not for the faint of heart, I warn you, but it is not excessively gory or sadistic compared to other war films. It never seems to revel or relish in the gore and atrocities but rather presents them as a backdrop of Flyora's journey through a broken world. On a purely visual level, the narrative towards the end leaves behind the streams and forests of earlier into a wasteland. The final scenes are taken up by burning flames and ruin all around mixed with the cheering and laughing of the German soldiers on their trucks, and then by a puddle in a muddy field in which Hitler's portrait is floating. Some of the scenes, particularly the one with Glasha dancing in the rain to imaginary swing music, are genuinely heart-warming. Still, it is not a happy film all in all, as you could probably tell. The end left me feeling neither very sad nor happy, simply empty in the same way as the devastation in the film. I thought the movie was brilliant, and a really unique piece of art, not only as an audio-visual, but also as a psychological experience. For anyone who has the stomach for this sort of thing, I very highly recommend it.

This is a wonderful narrative....well done to the speaker.

I remember the German officer that was executed, along with non-Germans (Norwegians?) that joined the German military. The non-Germans were trying to put blame on the Germans.

While this movie is hard to watch, it's still my all time favorite anti-war movie...along with Grave of Fireflies. Great video, thanks!

It's a hard watch but worth it. Capturing the hell that is war ain't easy, but this move wrings truth out in just about everything it does. Just make sure you're in a good place mentally. I'm serious.

Incredible film, seers into your brain. Klimov never really made another film after this beside one more, he'd done everything he was put on this earth for, he delivered one of the greatest films ever.

there us no beach in this movie, just a sandy area... Belarus has no coastline