Come and See/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Complete Monster: The SS troopers. And yes, these monsters were based on a real-life unit, the Dirlewanger Brigade.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny: There's a rare funny moment when Florya and Roubej steal a milk cow from a Nazi-collaborating farmer.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Most scenes in the latter half of the movie, from the swamp and onwards. The most chilling fact is that everything here happened in reality. No Hollywood History, this is.
  • Magnum Opus: This fim is the best known and most well-regarded work of its director, Elem Klimov. He didn't make any more films after it, stating that "Everything that was possible I felt I had already done."
  • Moral Event Horizon: The actions of the SS troops at the ending, especially when they burn down the village church with all the families inside. When the church first catches fire, the soldiers cheer and break into unanimous applause. It gets worse.
  • Nausea Fuel
  • Tear Jerker
  • Unfortunate Implications: The squicky sexual relationship between adolescent Glasha and middle-aged Kosach (and possibly the rest of the males in the partisan camp).
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