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The Living

They were still small children when everything was taken away from their parents, and they were left for a long and agonising death. The film brings back to 1932-1933, the years of the Great Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor), when whole villages were dying. Weaved from the diaries of a British journalist who came to witness this infernal genocide, the memories of famine-survivors, and archival material, the film tells about poorly known bloody mark of the history of the 20th century.

Awards

Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival – Silver Apricot for the Best Documentary (2009)
Media North-South Forum in Geneva – Grand Prix (2009)
Batumi International Art-house Film Festival – Special Jury Prize (2009)

Sergej Bukovskij

Sergej Bukovskij was born in 1960 in Bashkiria, USSR. After graduating from the Karpenko-Karyi Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts, he began working as a film director at the Ukrainian State Studio of Documentary Films. He has made approximately 50 documentary and television films and won awards at international film festivals. His nine-part documentary series War. The Ukrainian Account (2003) was awarded the National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine in 2004. Over the last few years Sergej Bukovskij has been working as an independent film director and making documentaries for Ukrainian and Russian television channels.

Selected Filmography

The Hyphen / Znak tire (1992)
To Berlin! / Na Berlin! (1995)
War. The Ukrainian Account / Vijna. Ukrainskij rahunok (2003)
Vilen Kalyuta. Real Light / Vilen Kaljuta. Realne Svitlo (2003)
 
 

Information

Cinematography: Vladimir Kukorenchuk
Sound: Igor Barba, Georgij Stremovskij
Editing: Aleksandr Suchov
Production: Listopad film
Ukraine, 2008, 74 min.