Description
A filmmaker returns from Kyiv to his rural village to marry the love of his life. He is expected to marry the Rabbi’s daughter, which disrupts the balance of the whole town.
In one unflinching shot, this film presents a day in the life of a Jewish village before it disappears. SHHTL is the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland 24 hours before the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barbarossa.
Today, there are no such villages in existence; the production fully reconstructed a traditional “Shtetl” outside Kyiv. Following the filming, the set was turned into a museum but has since been destroyed in the ongoing political crisis between Russia and Ukraine.
Directed by Ady Walter
Starring Moshe Lobel, Kostiantyn Afanasiev, Sharon Azrieli, Vitaliia Barco, Aleksandr Ivanov, Emily Karpel