Elem Klimov, Russia 1979, 142'

'The greatest war film ever made.' JG Ballard

A crowning achievement of 1980s Soviet cinema, Come and See is a savage and lyrical fever dream of death, rage and terror experienced through young eyes during the Second World War.

When young Florya willingly joins a group of Partisans fighting the Nazis in the USSR., he little suspects that he is plunging through the looking glass. Separated from his comrades and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya wanders a battle-scorched Russian purgatory of prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. His journey takes him and us through a gallery of exquisitely poetic imagery and brutal human atrocity.