War film with sickening ’25 minutes from hell’ has become the highest rated film ever

Survivor Testimonies From Belarus

Directed by Soviet-Russian filmmaker Elem Klimov, Come and See draws heavily from real accounts of the Nazi occupation of Belarus during World War II.

The screenplay was adapted from Ales Adamovich’s 1971 novel Khatyn and his later collection of survivor testimonies, I Am from the Fiery Village.

Klimov, who experienced continue reading …