Babi Yar. Context

Name: Babi Yar. Context
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: April 1, 2022
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Anastasya Osmachko, Dina Pronicheva, Hans Frank, Hans Isenmann, Ivan Konev

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| Release Date: April 1, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Anastasya Osmachko, Dina Pronicheva, Hans Frank, Hans Isenmann, Ivan Konev, Nikifor Timofeyevich Kalchenko, Nikita Khrushchev, Vladimir Artobolevsky

Summary: Based entirely on archive footage, the film reconstructs the events leading up to the massacre of 33 771 Jews in German occupied Kiev in September 1941, and the aftermath of the tragedy.

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 121 min

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A.O. Scott

Mar 31, 2022

Loznitsa has assembled a wrenching and revelatory collage. Read full review

Demetrios Matheou

Mar 28, 2022

Loznitsa creates a fascinating and quietly devastating chronicle of invasion, occupation and slaughter. As ever, the Ukrainian director doesn’t labour his film with voiceover or overt authorial steers. Yet this is close to home, and it’s impossible not to feel that he’s holding his country to account; for while this was a Nazi extermination, it came with a degree of collusion. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Mar 28, 2022

Sergei Loznitsa continues to mine the archives for what amount to living documents of a past that, as is all too clear, reverberate into the present with devastating force. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Mar 28, 2022

Babi Yar. Context has power but falls short of the director’s greatest works, largely because his span here is considerably longer, and in consequence the focus suffers. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Apr 1, 2022

The dual nature of “Babi Yar. Context” as both an essay movie and a cut-up historic document might create an uneasy tension with viewers who would like to know more about whatever they’re looking at. If nothing else, Loznitsa succeeds at being upsetting. Read full review

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