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Famine-33

1991·Drama·1h 32m
7.1
The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
Directed by Oles Yanchuk
based on novel or book
soviet union
famine
family relationships
dead body
holodomor

Cast

Oleksiy Horbunov
Oleksiy Horbunov
Bolshevik
Galina Sulima
Galina Sulima
Daria Katrannyk
Heorhiy Morozyuk
Heorhiy Morozyuk
Miron Katrannyk
Leonid Yanovskyi
Leonid Yanovskyi
Petro Beniuk
Petro Beniuk
Oleg Isayev
Oleg Isayev
Viktor Stepanenko
Viktor Stepanenko

Crew

Oles Yanchuk
Oles Yanchuk
Director
Serhiy Dyachenko
Serhiy Dyachenko
Screenplay
Mykhailo Kretov
Mykhailo Kretov
Director of Photography
Vasyl Barka
Vasyl Barka
Novel
Nikolay Pavlov
Nikolay Pavlov
Stunts

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Mykola Wash
Mykola Wash
Famine-33
Famine. Starvation becomes a mental shackle, depriving one of their freedom to think. Begging to cry out, but the entire body isn’t where it should be, and the body can’t muster a cry, let alone an utterable sound. Hunger, starvation and disease — a sickness of evil, and unrecognizable suffering.

Unrealistic grain quotas, set at high levels, the agony of the Ukrainian people was hidden — food right in front of them, a whole level of torture that remains unmatched by the world. So many bodies, rolling down the hills — lying in the fields, and snow — all because its people were as autonomous and sustainable as their grain. You have to understand that this is a historic war, it’s been going on since the 30’s with this haunting man-made-famine, has continued to the present, and remained so: long before the forced-cannibalism, bullet-execution, mass-starvation that was experienced in one single year. 

Famine-33 details the experience of living a genocide. Families torn apart — sometimes literally, by hungry cannibals — hope is as far off as a source of food, humans are regressed to another breed. There is so much hate in this world, so much brutality and hatred, and yet we all bleed the same — this I will never understand, the way that culture, religion and region preach withdrawal from other peoples. 

My Grandmas lived this, they survived it — having to hide in the fields, and rivers, from the cannibals and the Kremlin. Having to hide from humans as humans themselves; but they were morsels hiding from saviors. They, I, and Ukraine will never forget what the USSR (Russia) did to us, I will never celebrate the death of other men — but I will cheer at the collapse of a truly monstrous nation.
Famine. Starvation becomes a mental shackle, depriving one of their freedom to think. Begging to cry out, but the entire body isn’t where it should be, and the body can’t muster a cry, let alone an utterable sound. Hunger, starvation and disease — a sickness of evil, and unrecognizable suffering.

Unrealistic grain quotas, set at high levels, the agony of the Ukrainian people was hidden — food right in front of them, a whole level of torture that remains unmatched by the world. So many bodies, rolling down the hills — lying in the fields, and snow — all because its people were as autonomous and sustainable as their grain. You have to understand that this is a historic war, it’s been going on since the 30’s with this haunting man-made-famine, has continued to the present, and remained so: long before the forced-cannibalism, bullet-execution, mass-starvation that was experienced in one single year. 

Famine-33 details the experience of living a genocide. Families torn apart — sometimes literally, by hungry cannibals — hope is as far off as a source of food, humans are regressed to another breed. There is so much hate in this world, so much brutality and hatred, and yet we all bleed the same — this I will never understand, the way that culture, religion and region preach withdrawal from other peoples. 

My Grandmas lived this, they survived it — having to hide in the fields, and rivers, from the cannibals and the Kremlin. Having to hide from humans as humans themselves; but they were morsels hiding from saviors. They, I, and Ukraine will never forget what the USSR (Russia) did to us, I will never celebrate the death of other men — but I will cheer at the collapse of a truly monstrous nation.
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Polina
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pizdec укр літ за што
pizdec укр літ за што
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jo
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not that great of a film, but still a very important watch.
not that great of a film, but still a very important watch.
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