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娘子谷之殇

Babi Yar. Context

Director: Sergei Loznitsa/
Producer:ATOMS & VOID
Country / Region:The Netherlands | Ukraine
Year:2021
Duration:121 min
Film Introduction
On September 29-30, 1941, Sonderkommando 4a of the Einsatzgruppe C, assisted by two battalions of the Police Regiment South and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, and without any resistance from the local population, shot dead in the Babi Yar ravine in the north-west of Kiev 33 771 Jews. The film reconstructs the historical context of this tragedy through archive footage documenting the German occupation of Ukraine and the subsequent decade. When memory turns into oblivion, when the past overshadows the future, it is the voice of cinema that articulates the truth.
Film Creator
Sergei LOZNITSA (1964, Belarus), filmmaker, editor and screenwriter, grew up in Kiev, Ukraine and graduated in Applied Mathematics in 1987. During the years that followed, he became an artificial intelligence researcher and also worked as a translator from Japanese. Loznitza completed his filmmaking studies in 1997 and made 18 documentaries that brought him many national and international awards. He has also made several shorts and two feature films. In 2012 In the Fog won the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes film festival. Maidan, his documentary about the Maidan uprising in Ukraine (2014), received worldwide acclaim. The Event (2015) is about another failed revolution, the 1991 Soviet coup. Loznitsa won Best Director in Cannes for his film Donbass (2018).
Contact Information
contact@atomsvoid.com