Famine '33
– The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Bark..
The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
Release Date:
15 Dec 1993
Language:
Ukrainian
Director:
Oles Yanchuk
Writer:
Vasil Barka (novel), Sergey Dyachenko, Les Tanyuk
Main Actors:
Galina Sulima, Georgi Morozyuk, Oleksiy Gorbunov, Maksim Koval
Plot:
This film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family. The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended to punish Ukrainians for opposing the collectivization of their farms.
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