Parents' Guide to Come and See

Violence & Scariness

Violent and disturbing scenes, footage of real-life horrific acts from WWII, and animal cruelty. Soldiers enjoy intimidating and attacking villagers. Hundreds of men, women, and children are forced into a barn church by soldiers. There are prolonged scenes of mass panic and terror before they are shot at. Soldiers throw petrol bombs at the barn church to burn everyone inside alive. They clap and cheer as it burns and the people inside scream. It is then fired on with machine guns and flamethrowers. People are kicked and beaten. A woman is dragged across the ground by her hair. Soldiers pose for a photo with a gun to a terrified prisoner's head. Captured Nazi soldiers are covered in petrol and shot dead. Slaughtered people are piled up against a building. A character overwhelmed with grief strangles a companion. A person with severe burns all over their body tells how soldiers covered them in gasoline and lit them on fire. Soldiers discuss torture. A character is deafened by bomb blasts. A foot is found after an explosion. A dead body is driven around with a sign that says "I insulted a German soldier this morning." A mother drags young children out of bed and asks son to kill them with an axe to show the impact of him going to war. A young woman has blood down her legs, it's implied she had been sexually assaulted and beaten. Soldiers drag a woman off by her hair and bundle her into a truck, where she is grabbed at, with an implied sexual purpose as the reason she's been spared death. Some real animal violence: a cow is shot and killed by machine gun fire. A horse with bound legs struggles on the ground. Pigs are kicked and chick eggs are stamped on.

Language

Infrequent language includes "bastards," "shite," "s--t," "goddammit," and "a--hole." Antisemitic slur "Yid" is used.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Empty alcohol bottle is dropped out of a plane. Some soldiers are drunk while they invade a village and attack its inhabitants. Two characters smoke cigarettes.

Sex, Romance & Nudity

A young girl kisses a boy.

Products & Purchases

Positive Messages

While it's an extremely difficult watch with its depictions of war, there is a very clear anti-war message. Harrowing, realistic, and horrific, the movie tries to get close to the reality of war to show how bad it is. An older man scolds children for playing as soldiers, so they understand the seriousness of war. Fascism is shown to be utterly corrupting and dehumanizing. Some characters show courage in helping others.

Positive Role Models

Flyora is a young teen boy who finds a gun on a battlefield and joins partisans to fight the Nazis in Belarus during World War II. After his village is slaughtered and he witnesses the atrocities carried out by Nazi soldiers he is forever changed, disturbed and broken. Flyora's mother is furious and heartbroken that he wants to go to war and is driven to despair by grief. Glasha is a young woman who accompanies Flyora at camp. A character helps a boy hide his military clothes to make him appear as a civilian and gives him a family to join so he won't be persecuted as a soldier. A Nazi general watches his soldiers destroy a village and massacre its people. When captured, he claims to be innocent and a good man and denies all blame. A Nazi officer shows no remorse and says that the villager's nation doesn't have the right to exist and calls them an inferior race.

Diverse Representations

Airdropped German flyers use the racist term "Yids." Characters carry off a man and beat him, calling him "Yid" and "Jew bastard." Nazi soldiers in the movie are cruel, heartless killers who enjoy inhumane and heartless acts. The film is shot in the former Soviet Union with cast and crew from the region. Main parts are mostly filled by White males with some females in supporting roles. Languages spoken include Belarusian, Russian, and German.