THE DYBBUK. A TALE OF WANDERING SOULS

POLISH TITLE: DYBUK. RZECZ O WĘDRÓWCE DUSZ

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30 thousand Hasidim journey to Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of their holy leader Rebbe Nachman. 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.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
85'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Krzysztof Kopczyński
SCRIPT:
Krzysztof Kopczyński
DOP:
Jacek Petrycki, Serhij Stefan Stetsenko
EDITOR:
Michał Leszczyłowski
PRODUCTION:
Eureka Media - Krzysztof Kopczyński

Krzysztof Kopczyński »

Documentary filmmaker, PhD, Professor at the University of Warsaw. He produced over 50 documentaries which have been shown at festivals in 70 countries at least and won about140 awards. Director of documentaries “Stone Silence” (Afghanistan, 2007, screened in 40 countries) and “The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls” (Ukraine, 2015, 20 countries). He is a winner of 25 film awards and a member of the European Film Academy as well as the Polish Film Academy.