Shttl (2022)

Original title

שטטל

Directed by

Ady Walter

Genre

drama film

Country

Ukraine, France

Runtime

1h 54m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a single continuous shot through a Jewish shtetl in Ukraine in 1941. It shows the daily lives and interactions of the community just before the Nazi invasion.

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What happens

Shttl (Yiddish: שטטל, Ukrainian: «Шттл») is a 2022 Ukrainian–French one-shot drama film written and directed by Ady Walter and starring Moshe Lobel and Saul Rubinek. The film depicts the lives of a Jewish shtetl on the eve of Operation Barbarossa. It was filmed in Ukraine six months before the 2022 Russian invasion. Shttl premiered at the 2022 London Film Festival, and won the Audience Award one week later at the Rome Film Festival. The missing 'e' in the title (normally spelled "shtetl") is a reference to Georges Perec's La disparition, a 1969 novel which doesn't contain the letter. The missing 'e', in French pronounced the same way as "eux" (they), represents, according to Walter, their absence, the void left behind in the Shoah; Perec's father died in the war, and his mother was killed in Auschwitz. On September 8, 2023, it was announced that Shttl is on the shortlist to represent Ukraine for the 96th Academy Awards. The film received two Golden Dzyga nominations by the Ukrainian Film Academy for its cinematography and production design. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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