The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Loznitsa has assembled a wrenching and revelatory collage.
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Netherlands, Ukraine · 2022
2h 1m
Director Sergei Loznitsa
Starring
Genre Documentary, History
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The film will chronicle the September 1941 massacre of 30,000 Jews by Nazi troops over a three-day period.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Loznitsa has assembled a wrenching and revelatory collage.
Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
Sergei Loznitsa continues to mine the archives for what amount to living documents of a past that, as is all too clear, reverberate into the present with devastating force.
Screen Daily by Demetrios Matheou
Loznitsa creates a fascinating and quietly devastating chronicle of invasion, occupation and slaughter. As ever, the Ukrainian director doesn’t labour his film with voiceover or overt authorial steers. Yet this is close to home, and it’s impossible not to feel that he’s holding his country to account; for while this was a Nazi extermination, it came with a degree of collusion.
Babi Yar. Context has power but falls short of the director’s greatest works, largely because his span here is considerably longer, and in consequence the focus suffers.
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