Babi Yar. Context

On September 29–30, 1941, Sonderkommando 4a of the Einsatzgruppe C, assisted by two battalions of the Police Regiment South and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, and without any resistance from the local population, shot dead 33,771 Jews in the Babi Yar Ravine northwest of Kyiv. This film reconstructs the historical context of the tragedy through archival footage documenting the German occupation of Ukraine and the subsequent decade. When memory turns into oblivion, when the past overshadows the future, it is the voice of cinema that articulates the truth. “A documentary that powerfully speaks to the country’s precarious present, as well as its past” (Leonard Quart, Berkshire Edge).