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If you consider the best World War 2 movies of all time, Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning basic Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List are prone to come up in dialog.

Yet there’s one Second World War epic that was the Soviet entry for Best Foreign Language Film on the 58th Academy Awards and wasn’t even accepted.

Today it’s not solely thought of one of many perfect World War 2 motion pictures of all time, however one of many biggest movies ever made and it’s now free to observe legally on YouTube.

The movie in query is 1985’s Come and See, a Soviet anti-war tragedy that focuses on the Nazi occupation of Belarus by the eyes of an adolescent who joins the resistance. Hitler’s atrocities towards the populace are horrifyingly depicted in a movie that mixes hyper-realism with surrealism. This Russian image is on the market to stream on the official Mosfilm YouTube channel (see embed hyperlink beneath) alongside most of the greatest Soviet-era movies, together with the acclaimed works of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Come and See’s official synopsis reads: “1943, the Great Patriotic War, territory of Belarus. The 16-year-old boy Flera, having dug out a carbine among scraps of barbed wire, rusty machine-gun belts and shot-through helmets, goes into the forest to join the ranks of the partisans. This film, like no other, shows the tragedy of a child on a battlefield. At the beginning of the picture Flera is just a teenager. But in the end, having gone through horror and fear, child becomes an adult, frighteningly adult – his face is distorted by senile wrinkles, and there is no room for love in his soul…”