Spell Your Name

Sep 1, 2006

1h 29m

★ 7.0

Overview

he film is based on the testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust that were collected by The Visual Library Archive of USC Shoah Foundation. Director Sergey Bukovsky takes the viewer on a journey of discovery as he and several Ukrainian students absorb the testimony of Ukrainian people who escaped brutal execution and those who rescued friends and neighbors during the Holocaust. A collection of men and women share the details of their experiences, and we are afforded a glimpse of modern-day Ukraine: the ethnic stereotypes that continue to exist and the manner in which Post-Soviet society is dealing with the question of how to memorialize the sites where tens of thousands of Jewish families and others were executed and thrown into mass graves.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Production Companies

Plus Films

USC Shoah Foundation

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Cast

Polina Bel'skaia

Transciber

Maryna Chaika

Mariia Egorycheva-Glagoleva

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