Живі

Живі

The events of the tape take place in 1917-1937, it shows two storylines. The first is based on the testimony of our compatriots who managed to survive after these terrible events. The second is a view from the outside, through the eyes of British journalist Gareth Jones, whose truth about the tragedy of the Ukrainians was described in detail, but was never heard by contemporaries. Read more They were children when everything was taken from their parents. Peasants who lived and worked on the most fertile soil in the world were given over to starvation and slow death. From those who survived, they formed an army of slaves... Only now are these people telling about what they experienced. About how their parents were driven to a "bright future". How they took the last one. How villages died out. How did they stay alive... "It would be better if we were not born..." - says one of the witnesses. The tragedy of the Holodomor is woven into the plot of the world drama of the early 1930s: the paralysis of the economy in the USA, Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the war of the Bolshevik government, headed by Stalin, with the peasantry. The latter defended private property and therefore had to either admit defeat or die. But in 1933 they were deprived of the slightest possibility of choice. At the same time, the task of putting an end to national communism and any manifestations of independent national politics was solved. In the Ukraine of the 1920s, it was implemented most consistently, and it was suppressed just as "sequentially" and brutally. British journalist Gareth Jones, whose truth about the tragedy of Ukrainians was not heard in the West, acts as a kind of guide in the film's journey through the hell of history. The governments of many countries have shown indifference to the plight of others. Although the situation in Ukraine was well known - this is evidenced by the documents made public in the film... Testimonies of people who survived the famine are intertwined in the film with diary entries made by Jones during a trip to Ukraine in March 1933. Awards: "Live" was awarded the "Silver Apricot" at the Yerevan International Film Festival, the "Geneva-2009 Grand Prix" of the International MEDIAS Forum "North-South" in Geneva, a special prize of the jury of the International Festival of Art House Cinema in Batumi, Georgia. Also included in the official program of the "Camerimage" International Film Festival in Lodz, Poland (November 28 - December 5, 2009) and the "Thousand One" International Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey (December, 2009).