The living

Director: Sergey Bukovsky

Country: Ukrainian, USA

Year of production: 2008

Duration: 75 min

Subject:

Totalitarian regimes
Right to freedom of movement
Freedom of speech
Right to life
Right to liberty
Discrimination
Children's rights
Human dignity
The citizen and the state
Human rights

Audience:

Lawyers
Pupils
Employees of penitentiary system
Institutions of the state penitentiary system of Ukraine
Teachers
Government officials
Students
Activists / NGOs
Journalists

The latter were fighting for their rights, and in 1933 they were not able to have a choice and were tortured by hunger. However, the movie shows struggle of Stalin with national communism and all forms of independent national policy. A “guide” in the movie is British journalist Gareth Jones, whose truth about the Ukrainian tragedy was not heard in the West. His story is completed with the Holodomor witnesses. The film is available in Ukrainian.

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