[mova] Spell your name - film

[I Bell]

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         Re Bukovsky's film 'Spell your name'.  Unfortunately I 
haven't yet had an opportunity to see the film, but I find 'Spell 
your name' an extremely strange title, as there is no concept of 
spelling in Ukrainian - if you hear a word, you know exactly how to 
write it, that's the beauty of the language.
                                                                                 Irena



>The series will present S. Bukovsky's documentary 
><http://spellyourname.org/eng/main.php>SPELL YOUR NAME (2006). 
>Produced by <http://college.usc.edu/vhi/>the USC Shoah Foundation 
>Institute for Visual History and Education, made possible by a 
>generous grant from Victor Pinchuk, and in continued partnership 
>with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Spell Your Name is a 
>feature-length documentary about the Holocaust in Ukraine.
>
>Bukovsky crafted the film using Ukrainian and Russian-language 
>testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute archive and new 
>footage shot on location in Ukraine. The film director takes the 
>viewer on a journey of discovery as he and several Ukrainian 
>students absorb the testimony of local people who escaped brutal 
>execution and those who rescued friends and neighbours during the 
>Holocaust. A collection of men and women share the details of their 
>experiences, and we are afforded a glimpse of modern day Ukraine: 
>the ethnic stereotypes that continue to exist and the manner in 
>which Post-Soviet society is dealing with the question of how to 
>memorialize the sites where tens of thousands of Jewish families and 
>others were executed and thrown into mass graves.
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