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Carol of the Bells
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy , and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting.
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Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy , and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting.
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Genre:Drama, History
Written By:Kseniya Zastavskaya
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Runtime:122 minutes
Studio:AMA Vision, Stewopol, Mainstream Pictures LLC
Cast
Olesya Morhunets
Director
Yana Koroliova
Sofiia Ivaniuk
Andrii Mostrenko
Mykhailo Ivaniuk
Polina Gromova
Yaroslava Ivaniuk
Joanna Opozda
Wanda Kalinowska
Mirosław Haniszewski
Waclaw Kalinowski
Khrystyna Ushytska
Teresa Kalinowska
Tomasz Sobczak
Isaac Herszkowicz
Alla Binieieva
Berta Herszkowicz
Evgeniya Solodovnik
Dinah Herszkowicz
Timofey Dmitrienko
Heinrich Krampe
Jakob Walser
Walter Krampe
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