Special Screenings, Cannes 2021
Directed by: Sergei Loznitsa
Country: Netherlands, Ukraine
Year: 2021
Length: 120 minutes
Genre: documentary
The end of September 1941. Sonderkommando 4a of the Einsatzgruppe C shot dead in the Babi Yar ravine in the north-west of Kiev 33,771 Jews, without any resistance from the local population. The film reconstructs and visualises the historical context of this tragedy through archive footage documenting the German occupation of Ukraine and the subsequent decade. When memory turns into oblivion, when the past overshadows the future, it is the voice of cinema that articulates the truth.
Directed by: Sergei Loznitsa
Screenplay: Sergei Loznitsa
Editing: Sergei Loznitsa, Tomasz Wolski, Danielius Kokanauskis
Sound: Vladimir Golovnitskiy, Ivo Heger
Original language: Russian
Subtitles: English, Romanian
