History YMMV / ComeAndSee

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Averted [[UpToEleven to hell and back]].

* CompleteMonster: The nameless young ''Obersturmfuhrer'' is an ice-eyed Nazi who stands out as the most inhuman member of his sadistic [[StateSec SS]] troop. Descending on a small town with his unit, the ''Obersturmfuhrer'' rounds up the entire populace in a church and gives them an [[SadisticChoice ultimatum]]: any can leave, but they must abandon their children. The ''Obersturmfuhrer'' then torches the entire building to the ground with the screaming population still inside; the one woman who attempts to escape with a child is sent off by the Obersturmfuhrer to be gang-raped into insanity after her child is tossed back into the church. When he's finally confronted at the end of a gun, the ''Obersturmfuhrer'' defiantly spits that his victims deserved it all and need to be wiped out, even remarking he [[WouldHurtAChild singled out the children]] to kill because "problems always start with the kids".

* CompleteMonster: The nameless young ''Obersturmfuhrer'' is an ice-eyed Nazi who stands out as the most distinguished even in his sadistic [[StateSec SS]] troop. Descending on a small town with his unit, the ''Obersturmfuhrer'' rounds up the entire populace in a church and gives them an [[SadisticChoice ultimatum]]: any can leave, but they must abandon their children. The ''Obersturmfuhrer'' then torches the entire building to the ground with the screaming population still inside; the one woman who attempts to escape with a child is sent off by the Obersturmfuhrer to be gang-raped into insanity after her child is tossed back into the church. When he's finally confronted at the end of a gun, the ''Obersturmfuhrer'' defiantly spits that his victims deserved it all and need to be wiped out, even remarking he [[WouldHurtAChild singled out the children]] to kill because "problems always start with the kids".

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Averted [[UpToEleven the hell and back]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Florya being unable to shoot the images of Hitler as a schoolboy and a baby. It sends a message that speaks volumes to the viewer.

** When the villagers in Perekhody are herded into the church, the German officer tells them that they can come out as long as they leave their children behind; nobody stops Florya when he climbs out a window. Likewise, when one of the partisans yells at the 'new kid' to hurry up at the end of the film, it is revealed that he is addressing a new recruit, not Florya. This reinforces the film's portrayal of Florya's accelerated evolution from carefree adolescent to battle-hardened soldier.

* SignatureScene: The Nazis pointing a gun to Florya's head, for a photo opportunity amidst all the horror and human misery they have caused, and then leaving him alive (or, more accurately, casually discarding him after they are done with him), letting him sit alone in frozen horror as he tries to digest everything he has just witnessed.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: There's a rare funny moment when Flyora and Roubej steal a milk cow from a Nazi-collaborating farmer.

* FridgeLogic: When the villagers in Perekhody are herded into the church, the German officer tells them that they can come out as long as they leave their children behind; nobody stops Florya when he climbs out a window. Likewise, when one of the partisans yells at the 'new kid' to hurry up at the end of the film, it is revealed that he is addressing a new recruit, not Florya. This reinforces the film's portrayal of Florya's accelerated evolution from carefree adolescent to battle-hardened soldier.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: No matter how good intentions you may have had going into it, war will eat away your innocence and sanity to the point that your original intentions would be worthless and Flyora, the main character, only comes off as sympathetic in the end by realizing that at one point even Hitler had been innocent.

* FridgeLogic: When the villagers in Perekhody are herded into the church, the German officer tells them that they can come out as long as they leave their children behind; nobody stops Florya when he climbs out a window. Likewise, when one of the partisans yells at the 'new kid' to hurry up at the end of the film, it is revealed that he is addressing a new recruit, not Florya. This reinforces the film's portrayal of Florya's accelerated evolution from carefree adolescent to battle-hardened soldier.

* NightmareFuel: Most scenes in the latter half of the movie, from the swamp and onwards. The most chilling fact is that ''everything'' here happened in reality. No HollywoodHistory, this is.

* MagnumOpus: This fim is the best known and most well-regarded work of its director, Elem Klimov. He didn't make any more films after it, stating that "Everything that was possible I felt I had already done."

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: There's a rare funny moment when Florya and Roubej steal a milk cow from a Nazi-collaborating farmer.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: No matter how good intentions you may have had going into it, war will eat away your innocence and sanity to the point that your original intentions would be worthless and Florya, the main character, only comes off as sympathetic in the end by realizing that at one point even Hitler had been innocent.

* NauseaFuel

* TearJerker

* UnfortunateImplications: The {{squick}}y sexual relationship between adolescent Glasha and middle-aged Kosach (and possibly the rest of the males in the partisan camp).

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: No matter how good intentions you may have had going into it, war will eat away at you innocence and sanity to the point that your original intentions would be worthless and Florya, the main character, only comes off as sympathetic in the end by realizing that at one point even Hitler had been innocent.

* CompleteMonster: The SS troopers. And yes, these monsters were based on a real-life unit, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS the Dirlewanger Brigade.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: The actions of the SS troops at the ending, ''especially'' when they burn down the village church with all the families inside. When the church first catches fire, the soldiers cheer and break into unanimous applause. [[ItGotWorse It gets worse.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Most scenes in the latter half of the movie, from the swamp and onwards. The most chilling fact is that ''everything'' here happened in reality. No HollywoodHistory, this is.

* UnfortunateImplications: The {{squick}}y sexual relationship between adolescent Glasha and middle-aged Kosach (and possibly the rest of the males in the partisan camp).

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Most scenes in the latter half of the movie, from the swamp and onwards. The most chilling fact is that ''everything'' here happened in reality. No HollywoodHistory, this is.

* TearJerker