documentary film about Babi Yar
Creator(s)
- LeRoy S. Strohl III
Scope and Content
Documentary film about Babi Yar including archival footage and interviews. At times, the narration does not accurately support the footage, images are sometimes misused. Captured Nazi footage, photographic stills, and newsreel footage were obtained from various Russian archives (see notes for more details). Scenes show Kiev, Hitler, Hitler Youth, Nazi flags with swastikas, US protest posters, neo-Nazi scenes, deportation, piles of victims' belongings, Dina Pronicheva's testimony at the war crimes trials in Kiev, Jewish boycotts, undressing sequences, the chief of Kiev Ukrainian Police Kajvada, and the Babi Yar monument. Interviews feature Fyodor Zavertanny, Yakov Steyuk, David Budnik, Leonid Ostrovsky, Zakhar Trubakov, Yakov Kaper, Vladimir Davydov, Genya Batashova, and Galina Voytyuk.
Note(s)
Produced for Ukrainian Studio of TV Films Producers: Vitaly Korotych, Vladimir Georgiyenko, Alexander Shlaen, Anatoly Vashchenko, Khein Solganik Presented by Vitaly Korotych, poet Credits on film indicate that the historic films come from the: Central State Archives of Cinephotodocuments of the USSR; USSR Gosfilmfond; Central State Archives of Cinephotodocuments of the Ukrainian SSR; Central State Archives of the October Revolution of the USSR; Central State Archives of the October Revolution of the Ukrainian SSR; Central Scientific Library of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences.
Subjects
- BABI YAR
- INTERVIEWS
- UKRAINE
- MASSACRES
Places
- Kyiv (Kiev), Soviet Union
- , Ukraine
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film