Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, this film is a "found footage" documentary that reconstructs the events leading up to and following the massacre of over 33,000 Jews in the Babi Yar ravine.
The film includes footage from the trial of 15 Nazis and collaborators, which helped bring the details of the massacre to light. Babi Yar. Context
Explores complicity, the "Holocaust by Bullets," and the subsequent Soviet attempts to erase the memory of the site. Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, this film is a
Composed entirely of restored black-and-white and color footage from German and Soviet archives. The Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust in Ukraine Received
🚩 Babi Yar. Context is less about the act of the massacre itself and more about the visual atmosphere of the time—showing the people, the propaganda, and the terrifyingly "normal" environment in which such an atrocity occurred. The Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Received a Special Jury Prize (L'Œil d'or) at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival . 📜 Historical Context (September 1941)
Following the German occupation of Kyiv, a series of explosions set off by Soviet NKVD agents destroyed German-occupied buildings.