The documentary film on the Holocaust, “Spell Your Name,” will begin screenings

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On 15 February, the documentary film on the Holocaust, "Spell Your Name," will begin screenings at cinemas throughout Ukraine. The film will be seen in cinemas in Kiev, Dnipropetrovs'k, Zaporizhzhya, Odessa, Chernivtsi and Kolomyya. Plans are to expand the distribution through other regions of the country prior to autumn.

The film, directed by Serghiy Bukovskyi, and co-produced by the world-famous director Steven Spielberg together with Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk, will soon appear in Ukraine's cinemas. Roman Martynenko, director of the film distribution company "Avrorafilm", provided details of the screenings during a recent press conference.

‘We're very pleased to be approached by The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the Shoah Foundation Institute with a proposal to distribute this documentary film," Martynenko said. "The primary audience of our cinemas is the youth. I believe it is important for the young people to learn about the past from the witnesses' lips. Moreover, this is a film of Ukrainian director and advancement of Ukrainian films and their large-screened exhibition is one of our company's goals."

"We're making all efforts to screen the film to the most Ukrainian spectators we can," he continued. "And, we are trying to arrange a special price policy for students and pensioners."

The film director, who participated in the press conference, warned viewers of the gravity of the film.

"I'm very glad that the film is screening, however I want to warn you that the names of Spielberg and Pinchuk in the film credits is not an indication that the audience will see some action film, or an entertaining movie. This is quite different story."

"Spell Your Name", a mutual project of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and The Victor Pinchuk Foundation, is a full-length documentary film about the Holocaust in Ukraine. The film is based on testimonies, in Russian and Ukrainian languages, from the Shoah Foundation archives as well as new footage shot in Ukraine. The film was premiered in Kiev in October 2006.

In the film Bukovskyi invites viewers to travel from the past to the present along with three Ukrainian student journalists. Together with the viewers they discover the testimonies of the Holocaust survivors and those who rescued the Jews from the Nazi's massacre.

The film's characters share details of the past and the viewers are given an opportunity to look at the present and see the ethnic stereotypes that still exist in Ukraine, as well as to see the way a post-Soviet country is dealing with the problem of memorializing the places of mass execution of tens of thousands of Jewish families and other victims of Nazism.

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