Carol of the Bells
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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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Edited by Roman SinchukShot by Eugeniy KireyScored by Hossein MirzagholiDesigned by Vladlen Odudenko
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19 unique people credited
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Joanna Opozda
as Wanda Kalinowska
Alla Bineeva
as Berta Herszkowicz
Andrey Mostrenko
as Mykhailo Ivaniuk
Anastasia Mateshko
as Yaroslava Ivaniuk adult
Aleksandr Polovets
as SD officer
Svitlana Shtanko
as Maria
Volodymyr Kravchuk
as Burglar
Janina Rudenska
as Irma Krampe
Miroslaw Haniszewski
as Waclaw Kalinowski
Andrey Isaenko
as NKVD Officer
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