And this "cleansing" fell into the hands of the SS who, as depicted in the movie, literally destroyed every sign of life. And to Hitler that meant any man, woman, or child living under communist rule. The Nazis were not only concerned with the utter destruction of the Jews but of the Bolshevik Party as well. Come and See does not focus on what the German Army did to the Jewish population but rather what they did to the native Soviet population. And of course the unimaginable were the Nazi atrocities committed during the war. What he witnesses at the ripe age of 12 changes a once open-eyed, smiling face into a weathered, traumatized one that has experienced the unimaginable. obtains a gun) a partisan group resisting the German advancements in the forests of his native Byelorussia during World War II. The film follows Florya as he "joins" (i.e. The expression on my face as I sat there watching the credits scroll by seemed as worn and broken as that of the protagonist, Florya. Come and See is one of the rare films that I can remember being emotionally drained upon its conclusion.
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