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CAROL OF THE BELLS

ЩЕДРИК

By Olesya MORGUNETS-ISAENKO

TWELVE OAKS PICTURES - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, SPAIN

Historical - 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
- Historical, Drama, Female director
- Countries
- UKRAINE, POLAND
- Languages
- UKRANIAN, POLISH, GERMAN, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Olesya MORGUNETS-ISAENKO
- Writer(s)
- Oksana PRYSIAZHNIUK
- Cast
- Andrey MOSTRENKO, Tomasz SOBCZAK, Yana KOROLIOVA, Polina HROMOVA, Evgeniya SOLODOVNIK, Khrystyna USHYTSKA
- Producer(s)
- Maksim LESHCHANKA (STEWOPOL), Artem KOLIUBAIEV (AMA VISION)
- Synopsis
- The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families , Polish, Ukraine and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislav in the years preceding and post war, is shattered by invaders, first in the Nazi then the Soviet occupation of Ukraine.
  Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy of "Carol of the Bells" will be everlasting.