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“Spell your name” – is a documental film about Holocaust in Ukraine, based on witnesses’ stories. The producer of the film is American director with Jewish-Ukrainian roots Stephen Spielberg.
An extract from the film:
Spell your name please, have your name, patronymic and second name been the same before?
- They have…
- Please, spell them once again, slowly.
Ukrainian documentarian Serhiy Bukovskyi made the feature-length film. No chronicles of the Great Patriotic War II were used – there were only shoots of the modern Ukraine.
The feature is based on stories of the tragedy witnesses - Spielberg’s Charitable Fund have been collecting and recording on videotape stories for more than five years.
A story of a film hero – a witness of the events, “When we were driven, the smallest – a year-old girl was on Mother’s hands, while I was holding Mother’s skirt and was falling often”.
Ukrainian Jews in the film – they were all children at those times – tell how they escaped from death camps, how they hid and how they were frightened. How they lost their parents, and how they themselves escaped by the skin of teeth.
Interview with a hero of the film:
What can you tell us about your Mother Susanna Bentsionovna?
- I am not aware of the details of her death, she died when I was 11.
Heroes narrate about how not-Jewish saved some of them, Jews, putting themselves in danger.
Larysa Volovyk, director-founder of Kharkiv museum of Holocaust tragedy, “A Tatar, Alyma Ibrahimovna Shatokha had been hiding her neighbor behind her wardrobe for 2 years and a half. Can you imagine this! It’ staking into account that she had a five year-old girl and a husband after an operation. She said, “You think I am afraid of German? No, I was afraid of my neighbors”.
Spielberg’s Charitable Fund have interviewed about 40 people in Kharkiv. However, none of the stories was included into the feature.
Kharkovians managed to watch the film after projecting it in Kyyiv – a single copy of the film was specifically made to the 65th anniversary since the day of the tragedy in Drobytskyi Yar. In the end of the winter, Pinchuk’s fund, who financed the feature, is going to distribute copies of the film among museums and schools of Ukraine.
// 13.12.2006 09:49
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/culture/2006/2793.shtml
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