Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the 2008 documentary film The Living, directed by Serhii Bukovsky. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and lead a discussion after the screening.
The film is in Ukrainian and English with English subtitles.
This documentary masterpiece is about the Holodomor, a genocidal famine in Ukraine deliberately organized by the Soviet regime as it strove to build the communist “brave new word” free of classes, cultures, nations and, ultimately, humanity itself. Survivors’ accounts are intricately woven with the story of the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones whose reports on the catastrophe remained largely unheeded in the West. Through the creative genius of the director Serhii Bukosvky, this account of one of the worst tragedies in modern European history becomes a triumphant affirmation of the invincibility of the human spirit in the face of evil. This celebrated documentary is an absolute must-see.
