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The Daily Telegraph from London, Greater London, England • 157

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Saturday, April 22, 2006 arts.telegraph.co.uk arts 13 duds An excursion to hell: Alexei Kravchenko as Florya in Come and See DVDSOF THEWEEK Come and See 15, Nouveaux Pictures, 2 discs, £18:99 Night Watch 15, 20th Century Fox, £19:99 The beckoning title Come and See might seem like Meet Me in St Louis or Bring It On, a promise of fun, or at least a showbiz come-on. But there's precious little entertainment as such in the late Elem Klimov's harrowing, unique, highly influential 1985 war film about the sufferings of the people of Belarus under the genocidal Nazi occupation in 1943. That title, no marquee slogan, summons us frighteningly towards the Book of Revelation (6.7-8) and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: "And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." Hell on earth is indeed not much of an exaggeration for the story of Florya (Alexei Kravchenko), a young peasant boy who enthusiastically joins up with the partisan resistance, in his Sunday-best suit. He ends up having come to see more than any human being can bear, his ravaged young eyes staring around in disbelieving witness out of a grey, old man's face.

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