Carol of the Bells (2023)
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.
Director: Olesya Morhunets
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Yana Koroliova as Sofiia Ivaniuk |
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Andrii Mostrenko as Mykhailo Ivaniuk |
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Polina Gromova as Yaroslava Ivaniuk |
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Joanna Opozda as Wanda Kalinowska |
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Mirosław Haniszewski as Waclaw Kalinowski |
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Khrystyna Ushytska as Teresa Kalinowska |
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Tomasz Sobczak as Isaac Herszkowicz |
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Alla Binieieva as Berta Herszkowicz |
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Evgeniya Solodovnik as Dinah Herszkowicz |
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Timofey Dmitrienko as Heinrich Krampe |
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Jakob Walser as Walter Krampe |
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Janina Rudenska as Irma Krampe |
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Svitlana Shtanko as Mariia |
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Anastasia Mateshko as Yaroslava Ivaniuk (Adult) |
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Tetiana Krulikovska as Dinah Herszkowicz (Adult) |
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Andrii Isaienko as NKVD Officer 1 |
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Volodymyr Abazopulo as NKVD Officer 3 |
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Oleksandr Polovets as SD Officer 1 |
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Igor Salimonov as SD Officer 2 |
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Vadym Kurylko as Robber 1 |
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Volodymyr Kravchuk as Robber 2 |
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Oleksandr Gannochenko as Cabaret Administrator |
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Halyna Kornieieva as Orphanage Director |
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Viktor Zhdanov as Comrade Plakhin |
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Artem Koliubaiev as Comrade Komarov |
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Anna Birzul as Woman at the Airport |
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Taras Bosak as Man at the Airport |
| Directing | Olesya Morhunets | Director |
| Writing | Kseniya Zastavskaya | Writer |
| Art | Vladlen Odudenko | Production Design |
| Sound | Andrii Obod | Sound Director |
| Camera | Yevhenii Kyrei | Director of Photography |
| Production | Artem Koliubaiev | Producer |
| Production | Maksym Leshchanka | Producer |
| Production | Taras Bosak | Producer |
| Sound | Hossein Mirzagoli | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Roman Synchuk | Lead Editor |
