Ukraine, France | 2022 | 114 min. | Yiddish | Hebrew & English Sub | Fiction
A filmmaker returns from Kyiv to his rural village to marry the love of his life — the Rabbi’s daughter — disrupting the fragile balance of the town. In one unflinching take, the film portrays a single day in the life of a Jewish village before its disappearance.
SHTTL tells the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village on the border of Poland, twenty-four hours before the Nazi invasion known as Operation Barbarossa. Today, such villages no longer exist; the production completely reconstructed a traditional shtetl outside Kyiv, planned to become a museum.
Director: Ady Walter
Script: Ady Walter, Samuel Fischler
Production: Yuriy Artemenko, Olias Barco, Philippe Corrot, Jean-Charles Levy, Grebenchikova Ryta
Cinematography: Volodymyr Ivanov
Editing: Jérémie Bole du Chaumont
Original Score: David Federmann
Cast: Moshe Lobel (Mendele), Saul Rubinek (The Rabbi), Antoine Millet (Folie), Anisia Stasevich (Yuna)