Come and See (1985)
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope. nazi, war crimes, insanity, world war ii, surrealism, wehrmacht, teenage girl, atrocity, genocide, russian army, mine field, horrors of war, premature aging, byelorussia, children in wartime