24th ilb
5 – 14 Sep 2024 Program
9 – 18 Sep 2024 Young Program

Sergei Loznitsa: Babyn Jar. Kontext / Babi Yar. Context

Babi Yar [© Sergei Loznitsa]
Babi Yar [© Sergei Loznitsa]

Using material from German, Russian, and Ukrainian archives, the film reconstructs the massacre near Kyiv in which 33,711 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by a German Sonderkommando and the Ukrainian auxiliary police on September 29 and 30, 1941. »What is also frightening about the film is that similar images are emerging again today. The images of dead soldiers’ bodies resemble those from the Russian war in Ukraine« [Berliner Zeitung].

Length: 120min.
Language: Originial language with english subtitles

Introduction by Irine Beridze

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