Plot
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy , and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting.
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Cast
Yana Koroliova
Sofiia Ivaniuk
Andrii Mostrenko
Mykhailo Ivaniuk
Polina Gromova
Yaroslava Ivaniuk
Joanna Opozda
Wanda Kalinowska
Mirosław Haniszewski
Waclaw Kalinowski
Khrystyna Ushytska
Teresa Kalinowska
Tomasz Sobczak
Isaac Herszkowicz
Alla Binieieva
Berta Herszkowicz
Evgeniya Solodovnik
Dinah Herszkowicz
Timofey Dmitrienko
Heinrich Krampe
Jakob Walser
Walter Krampe
Janina Rudenska
Irma Krampe
Svitlana Shtanko
Mariia
Anastasia Mateshko
Yaroslava Ivaniuk (Adult)
Tetiana Krulikovska
Dinah Herszkowicz (Adult)
Andrii Isaienko
NKVD Officer 1
Volodymyr Abazopulo
NKVD Officer 3
Oleksandr Polovets
SD Officer 1
Igor Salimonov
SD Officer 2
Vadym Kurylko
Robber 1
Volodymyr Kravchuk
Robber 2
Oleksandr Gannochenko
Cabaret Administrator
Halyna Kornieieva
Orphanage Director
Viktor Zhdanov
Comrade Plakhin
Artem Koliubaiev
Comrade Komarov
Anna Birzul
Woman at the Airport
Taras Bosak
Man at the Airport