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The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls is a 2015 documentary film by Polish filmmaker and director Krzysztof Kopczyński. The film tells the story of a conflict between Orthodox Jews and Ukrainian far-right activists in Uman, a city in Ukraine, just before the 2013 Euromaidan protests.
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| Directed by | Krzysztof Kopczyński |
| Written by | Krzysztof Kopczyński |
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Running time | 86/53 minutes |
| Countries | Poland Sweden Ukraine |
| Languages | Ukrainian Hebrew Russian Yiddish |
Every year, 30,000 Hasidim journey to Uman to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of their holy leader Rebbe Nachman. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian far-right group erects a cross at the site of Hasidic prayers and builds a monument to Cossacks who slaughtered thousands of Jews and Poles in 1768 during a national rebellion.
The film opened the 55th Krakow Film Festival, where it received the Silver Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Documentary Film. The prize was awarded "for courage and non-conformity in showing an extremely complicated and universal problem of reciprocal intolerance when facing the dangers of the contemporary world."[1][2] On 6th Odesa International Film Festival the film received FIPRESCI prize for a feature-length film.[3]
References
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- ^ "Newsletter KFF".
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