After the German invasion of Belarus during [[World War II]], Flera, a sixteen years old boy played by 13-year-old actor (Aleksey Kravchenko, leaves his mother to go into the forest to join the partisans.
Among the horrors Flera experiences in the two and a quarter -hour film is a shockingly realistic depiction of the [[Holocaust#The_EinsatzgruppenEinsatzgruppenThe_Einsatzgruppen|Einsatzgruppen]] wiping out an entire village, one of 672 villages we learn at the end of the film that were exterminated in [[Belarus]].
Director Elem Klimov said, "in America people can hardly watch this film. Of course, there are those who do watch. I think their problem is...
They say: '"We have thrillers, but here it's something different. It's real life.'"
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