| Shttl | |
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| Directed by | Ady Walter |
| Written by | Ady Walter Samuel Fischler |
| Produced by | Jean-Charles Lévy Yuriy Artemenko Ryta Grebenchikova Olias Barco |
| Starring | Moshe Lobel Saul Rubinek Anisia Stasevich Petro Ninovskyi Antoine Millet |
| Cinematography | Volodymyr Ivanov |
| Edited by | Jérémie Bole du Chaumont |
| Music by | David Federmann |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Countries | Ukraine France |
| Languages | Yiddish Ukrainian |
Shttl (Yiddish: שטטל, Ukrainian: Шттл) is a 2022 Ukrainian–French one-shot drama film written and directed by Ady Walter and starring Moshe Lobel and Saul Rubinek.[1][2][3] The film depicts the lives of a Jewish shtetl on the eve of Operation Barbarossa. It was filmed in Ukraine six months before the 2022 Russian invasion.[4]
Shttl premiered at the 2022 London Film Festival,[5][6] and won the Audience Award one week later at the Rome Film Festival.[7]
The missing 'e' in the title (normally spelled "shtetl") is a reference to Georges Perec's La disparition, a 1969 novel which doesn't contain the letter. The missing 'e', in French pronounced the same way as "eux" (they), represents, according to Walter, their absence, the void left behind in the Shoah; Perec's father died in the war, and his mother was killed in Auschwitz.[8]
On September 8, 2023, it was announced that Shttl is on the shortlist to represent Ukraine for the 96th Academy Awards.[9]
The film received two Golden Dzyga nominations by the Ukrainian Film Academy for its cinematography and production design.[10]
- ^ Kirshner, Sheldon (January 11, 2023). "Shttl Resurrects A Vanished World". The Times of Israel. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
- ^ Liphshiz, Cnaaan (August 11, 2021). "Filmmakers constructed an acre-sized shtetl for a Ukrainian WWII film. Now they want to preserve it as a museum". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
- ^ Lipshiz, Cnaan (August 11, 2021). "Acre-sized shtetl for Ukrainian WWII film to become a museum". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
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:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Levitt, Barry (2022-10-18). "SHTTL Review: A Towering, Single-Take Masterpiece Of The Lives We've Lost [London Film Festival]". /Film. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ "SHTTL". BFI London Film Festival 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-02.[dead link]
- ^ "Winners of the Rome Film Fest 2022 – Fondazione Cinema per Roma". Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ Wiseman, Andreas (2022-12-16). "Ukraine-Shot Shoah Feature 'Shttl' Boarded By Upgrade Productions". Deadline. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- ^ "Shortlist for Ukraine's Oscars submissions announced". The Kyiv Independent. 2023-09-07. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
- ^ "Оголошено список номінантів на VIII Національну Кінопремію "Золота Дзиґа" | Новини". Українська Кіноакадемія (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-05-14.