From Hell to Hell

From Hell to Hell (Belarusian: З пекла ў пекла; Russian: Из ада в ад, romanized: Iz ada v ad) is a 1997 Belarusian drama film about the Kielce pogrom directed by Dmitry Astrakhan.[1][2] The film was selected as the Belarusian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3][4]

From Hell to Hell
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Directed byDmitry Astrakhan
Produced byArtur Brauner
Tina Yashul
Written byArtur Brauner
Oleg Danilov
StarringValeria Valeeva
Alla Kliouka
Anja Kling
Music byAlexander Pantykin
CinematographyYuri Vorontsov
Edited byVera Kolyadenko
Production
company
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryBelarus
LanguageGerman
Russian
Yiddish

Plot

In 1941, the Polish town Kielce is occupied by the Nazis. The main character, before being sent to a concentration camp, gives her daughter to a Polish family whose child has recently died. When the war has passed, the former prisoner returns to his hometown and wants his daughter returned, but she has grown up not knowing who her real parents were. Internal contradictions and deep spiritual experiences put the heroes in a cruel situation of choice.

Cast

See also

References
  1. Robert C. Reimer; Carol J. Reimer (12 April 2012). Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-8108-7986-7.
  2. Lawrence Baron (2005). Projecting the Holocaust Into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-7425-4333-1.
  3. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  4. "39 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 13 November 1996. Archived from the original on 9 February 1999. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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