Carol of the Bells
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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.
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Andrii Mostrenko
as Mykhailo Ivaniuk
Anastasia Mateshko
as Yaroslava Ivaniuk (Adult)
Tetiana Krulikovska
as Dinah Herszkowicz (Adult)
Andrii Isaienko
as NKVD Officer 1
Halyna Kornieieva
as Orphanage Director
Viktor Zhdanov
as Comrade Plakhin
Artem Koliubaiev
as Comrade Komarov
Polina Gromova
as Yaroslava Ivaniuk
Alla Binieieva
as Berta Herszkowicz
Janina Rudenska
as Irma Krampe
Volodymyr Kravchuk
as Robber 2
Oleksandr Gannochenko
as Cabaret Administrator
Anna Birzul
as Woman at the Airport
Joanna Opozda
as Wanda Kalinowska
Mirosław Haniszewski
as Waclaw Kalinowski
Svitlana Shtanko
as Mariia
Igor Salimonov
as SD Officer 2
Yana Koroliova
as Sofiia Ivaniuk
Tomasz Sobczak
as Isaac Herszkowicz
Volodymyr Abazopulo
as NKVD Officer 3
Oleksandr Polovets
as SD Officer 1
