Babiy Yar | |
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Directed by | Jeff Kanew |
Written by | Stephen Glantz |
Starring | Michael Degen, Katrin Sass, Barbara De Rossi, Axel Milberg, Euclid Kyurdzidis |
Music by | Walter Werzowa |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Countries | United States Belarus Germany |
Languages | German, English subtitles |
Babiy Yar (also known as Babij Jar) is a 2003 film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Michael Degen. [1]
Filmed in Europe and given a limited theatrical release, the film recounts the mass murders in September 1941 of thousands of Jews, Soviet POWs, communists, Romani people and civilian hostages by German Einsatzgruppen , and Ukrainian nationalist collaborators in the title location, a ravine in Kyiv (the capital of Ukraine). [2]