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The pummeling virtuosity of Berger’s filmmaking, which at times nods toward the conflagrations of Elem Klimov‘s masterful “Come and See,” does raise the eternal question of whether any combat movie can truly be called an antiwar movie, even if Berger’s own sentiments are never in doubt.

“We are heartbroken … will always remember you, Isu,” said Elem, a group that helped Abu Murkhiyeh, addressing him by a nickname.

This violence is the way of the world, the movie suggests, and the atrocities we’re witnessing — a burning hut evokes the wartime conflagrations of Elem Klimov’s “Come and See” — are as unexceptional as they are unbearable.

‘Come and See’ Elem Klimov’s heart-rending 1985 antiwar fable, about a Soviet youth who joins the fight against the Nazis, screens as a benefit for families affected by the current crisis in Ukraine.

Elem Klimov’s emotionally shattering 1985 masterpiece returns to theaters in a vital new restoration.