
"The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Babyn Yar"
2005, 53 min
National Television Company of Ukraine, "Memory of Babyn Yar" Foundation (in four parts) of the Jewish Council of Ukraine, to the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II), 2005. The documentary "The Voice of Your Brother's Blood Calls to Me from the Ground. Babyn Yar" tells the story of the murders of the Jewish population in Babyn Yar, in Kyiv.
On the video: photographs of children (captions in russian); footage from the chronicle of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler; "Book of Memory" (caption in russian), pages of the publication; footage from the Nuremberg Trials; letters from executed children; monument to executed children in Babyn Yar; "Babyn Yar" public transport stop; memorial sign "Menorah" in Babyn Yar; National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar" in the Shevchenko district of Kyiv; military chronicle of Kyiv; Colonel General of the Wehrmacht Heinz Guderian; Nazi troops in Kyiv; fires in Kyiv; announcement addressed to the Jews of Kyiv (written in russian); photographs of families (captions in russian); footage from the chronicle of the executions in Babyn Yar; victims' shoes; Holy Protection Podolsk Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church; Kyiv Syrets; Kyiv City Psychoneurological Hospital No. 1; Lukyaniv Cemetery; German map of Kyiv; tombstone at the old Jewish cemetery in Babyn Yar; honorary certificate of awarding the title of Righteous Among the World (written in russian and Hebrew); photographs of Ukrainian Righteous Among the World; Nazi swastika signs; Nazi standards; footage of the burning of books by the Nazis; footage of the chronicle of Kyiv after the liberation; footage of the chronicle of the excavations of Babyn Yar; footage of the hanging; photograph of the researcher, author of the book "Searches, memories, reflections of a Jew who remembers his grandfathers, about Ukrainian-Jewish relations, especially about the inhuman and human in them" by Martin Feller; photograph of Joseph Stalin; memorial plaque of the prominent Israeli statesman Golda Meir; monument to Taras Shevchenko; footage of the chronicle of the Kurenivka tragedy; memorial plaque of the russian writer Viktor Nekrasov (signed in russian).
Narrators: Ilya Levitas, head of the Jewish Council of Ukraine, the "Memory of Babyn Yar" foundation; sculptor, author of the monument to the children shot in Babyn Yar Valery Medvedev (speaks russian); righteous woman of Babyn Yar Lyudmila Zavorotna; righteous woman of Babyn Yar Inna Yevgenieva; rector of the Holy Intercession Podolsk Church, Father Volodymyr Cherpak; Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Yakov Dov Bleich; Ukrainian composer, author of the music for the Requiem-Kaddish "Babyn Yar" Yevhen Stankovych; author of the text of the Requiem-Kaddish "Babyn Yar" Dmytro Pavlychko.
The program uses archival footage from TV films: "Women from Babyn Yar Street", "Babyn Yar: The Truth About the Tragedy".
The program was prepared by: scriptwriter — Olena Syomka; cameraman — Viktor Sobolev; text from the author — Ivan Vovk; sound engineer — Viktor Tsymbal; sound engineer Olena Krasikova; musical design by Viktor Sobolev; assistant director — Serhiy Dariychuk; video engineers — Ruslan Lapika, Oleksiy Melnykov; editing by Olena Mamay, Alena Ukrainets.