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Było sobie miasteczko... (2009)

Było sobie miasteczko... poster
Directed by
Tadeusz Arciuch
Genre
documentary film
Country
Poland
Elsewhere
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How it feels

The film discusses the 1943 massacre of Polish villagers in Kisielin. It combines survivor testimonies and archival material to document what happened.

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What happens

Było sobie miasteczko... (English: There Once Was a Town...) is a 2009 Polish historical documentary film about the 1943 Kisielin massacre in the village of Kisielin (now Kysylyn), located in the Wołyń Voivodeship in Poland before World War II, (now in Ukraine). The film, directed by Tadeusz Arciuch and Maciej Wojciechowski, was produced by Adam Kruk for Telewizja Polska. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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