Babiy Yar (2003)

Directed by

Jeff Kanew

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film depicts the mass shootings of Jews, Soviet prisoners, and others at the Babiy Yar ravine near Kyiv in 1941. It follows the events through the eyes of a German officer.

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What happens

Babiy Yar (also known as Babij Jar) is a 2003 film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Michael Degen. Filmed in Europe and given a limited theatrical release, the film recounts the mass murders in September 1941 of thousands of Jews, Soviet POWs, communists, Romani people and civilian hostages by German Einsatzgruppen, and Ukrainian nationalist collaborators in the title location, a ravine in Kyiv (the capital of Ukraine). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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