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Carol of the Bells

Original title: Shchedryk
  • 2022
  • 2h 2m
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8.1/10
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Carol of the Bells (2022)
The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter.
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Children who were deprived of their parents by the punitive regimes of the USSR and the Third Reich found themselves on the verge of a clash of empires, at the dead end of occupation and the... Read allChildren who were deprived of their parents by the punitive regimes of the USSR and the Third Reich found themselves on the verge of a clash of empires, at the dead end of occupation and the trap of the Second World War.Children who were deprived of their parents by the punitive regimes of the USSR and the Third Reich found themselves on the verge of a clash of empires, at the dead end of occupation and the trap of the Second World War.

  • Director
    • Olesya Morgunets
  • Writer
    • Oksana Prysiazhniuk
  • Stars
    • Janina Rudenska
    • Joanna Opozda
    • Miroslaw Haniszewski
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    • Director
      • Olesya Morgunets
    • Writer
      • Oksana Prysiazhniuk
    • Stars
      • Janina Rudenska
      • Joanna Opozda
      • Miroslaw Haniszewski
    • 3User reviews
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    Carol of the Bells (2022)
    Evgeniya Solodovnik, Khrystyna Ushytska, Yana Koroliova, Polina Gromova, Tomasz Sobczak, Miroslaw Haniszewski, Joanna Opozda, Andrey Mostrenko, and Alla Bineeva in Carol of the Bells (2022)
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    Janina Rudenska
    Janina Rudenska
    • Irma Krampe
    Joanna Opozda
    Joanna Opozda
    • Wanda Kalinowska
    Miroslaw Haniszewski
    Miroslaw Haniszewski
    • Waclaw Kalinowski
    Svitlana Shtanko
    • Maria
    Andrey Mostrenko
    • Mykhailo Ivaniuk
    Andrey Isaenko
    Andrey Isaenko
    • NKVD Officer
    Jakob Walser
    Jakob Walser
    • Walter Krampe
    Alla Bineeva
    Alla Bineeva
    • Berta Herszkowicz
    Anastasia Mateshko
    • Yaroslava Ivaniuk adult
    Aleksandr Polovets
    Aleksandr Polovets
    • SD officer
    Yana Koroliova
    • Sofia Ivaniuk
    Tomasz Sobczak
    • Isaac Herszkowicz
    Timofey Dmitrienko
    • Heinrich Krampe
    Iryna Lazer
    • Director of choir
    Polina Gromova
    • Yaroslava Ivaniuk
    Khrystyna Ushytska
    • Teresa Kalinowska
    Tatyana Krulikovskaya
    • Dinah Herszkowicz adult
    • (as Tetiana Krulikovska)
    Evgeniya Solodovnik
    • Dinah Herszkowicz
    • Director
      • Olesya Morgunets
    • Writer
      • Oksana Prysiazhniuk(screenplay by)
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      The film was selected as the prestigious Closing Night Film at the 2022 Galway Film Fleadh.

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    Cosy and Bleak at the same time
    I really enjoyed the camera work, simple and sometimes naive plot matched the overall mood of the wartime Ukraine, be it today or the WW2. The beauty of this film is in small details, food and cutlery, children games and objects of the everyday life of then city of Stanislaviv. Its wintery and beautiful, with the unavoidable sense of tragedy. Children play a big part in the film, and it is through children that we can see and experience many aspects of the complex co-habitation of Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish population on the territory of the multilayered Ukrainian West. Soviet and German occupation is portrayed as a series of hardships that each of the national group experience differently, yet, knowing one another, can't help but compare.
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    • Release date
      • January 1, 2023 (Ukraine)
    • Countries of origin
      • Poland
      • Ukraine
    • Languages
      • Ukrainian
      • Polish
      • German
      • Russian
      • English
      • Yiddish
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Shchedryk
    • Production companies
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      • Stewopol
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      • $227,867
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      2 hours 2 minutes

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