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Idi i smotri (1985) More at IMDbPro »

• Many of the uniforms seen throughout the film are originals.
  
  
• Live ammunition was used in the film - in interviews, actor Aleksei Kravchenko has described actual bullets passing some 10 centimeters above his head.
  
  
• Filmed in chronological sequence.
  
  
• The director planned to have Aleksei Kravchenko hypnotized by a psychotherapist during the most dreadful and violent scenes so that they wouldn't affect his young mind. However Kravchenko turned out not to be susceptible to hypnosis and had to pretend all the way.
  
  
• The original name of the film was supposed to be "Kill Hitler." The name had to be changed because it was deemed inappropriate at that time.
  
  
• A large part of this movie was filmed in Steadicam.
  
  
• The Einsatzgruppe unit that attacks Perekhody is known as the 15th Einsatzkommando but there was a actually no unit with that designation during World War II.
  
  
• Byelorussia (aka White Russia) as depicted in this film was situated in the region between the then Soviet Union and then Nazi Germany during World War II. This frontier region in the film is today known as Belarus.
  
  
• The Nazi German SS Major Sturmbannfuhrer's type of pet in the film is an animal known as a Red Slender Loris, a mammal species of prosimian i.e. a primate that is neither a monkey nor an ape.
  
  
• This movie's title is derived from The Bible's New Testament. It is from Chapter 6 in the Book of Revelation (aka The Apocalypse of John aka The Revelation of St John the Divine aka The Revelation of St John). It reads: "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. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."
  
  
• The film's literal English translation from the Russian wording "Idi i smotri" is "Go and look" but the film is more commonly known in English as "Come and See" instead.
  
  
• There is a town with the name of Perekhody in the film and there is a town with this name today located in Smolensk Oblast, Russia.
  
  
• The film's closing epilogue states: "The Naxis burned down 628 Byelorussian villages together with all the people in them."
  
  

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