Belarus, 1943: 14-year-old Florja digs for old rifles on the beach so that he can finally become a partisan. When he finds what he is looking for, he allows himself to be recruited despite his mother's pleas and proudly goes off to fight. However, his childish dream of heroic deeds and adventure is shattered as soon as he arrives at the troop camp, as the commander doesn't want him on the mission. And so an odyssey begins for him on his way back, leading him into the hell of the Second World War in just a few days.

KOMM UND SIEH, Elem Klimov's last feature film, whose screenplay was blocked by the Soviet censors for seven years due to its allegedly too dirty and naturalistic aesthetic, is considered by many to be one of the last great masterpieces of Soviet cinema and the best war film in cinema history. Roger Ebert, for example, wrote at the time: "It is said that it is impossible to make a truly anti-war film, since war is inherently exciting and the end of the movie always belongs to the survivors. No one would ever make the mistake of saying that about Elem Klimov's Come and See. This Russian film from 1985 is one of the most devastating films of all time. I hardly know of another that shows human evil more ruthlessly."