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CAROL OF THE BELLS

ЩЕДРИК

By Olesya MORGUNETS-ISAENKO

Drama - Completed 2021

The story is set between 1938 and 1944 in the city living though the Soviet and Nazi occupation. Through these horrible years, a Ukrainian woman takes care of Polish and Jewish children who have found shelter in her apartment. Her love and sacrifice overcome cultural differences and even war.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- UKRAINE, POLAND
- Languages
- UKRANIAN, POLISH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 122 mn
- Director(s)
- Olesya MORGUNETS-ISAENKO
- Writer(s)
- Ksenia ZASTAVSKA
- Cast
- Yana KOROLIOVA, Polina GROMOVA, Evgeniya SOLODOVNIK, Khrystyna USHYTSKA, Joanna OPOZDA, Andrey MOSTRENKO, Tomasz SOBCZAK
- Producer(s)
- Maksim LESHCHANKA (STEWOPOL), Artem KOLIUBAIEV (AMA VISION)
- Synopsis
- Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment 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. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy, and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting.