Carol of the Bells

Name: Carol of the Bells
Director: Olesya Morhunets
Released: 2023
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Yana Koroliova, Andrii Mostrenko, Polina Gromova, Joanna Opozda, Mirosław Haniszewski

2023 · 122 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 551 VOTES · DIR. Olesya Morhunets

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 807 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:05 They have arrived! Dad!

00:05:15 That's better.

00:08:11 Oh my God.

00:11:51 And we went from neighbor to neighbor,

00:15:05 Did I do the right thing by inviting them all?

00:22:45 We urge you not to leave your work at enterprises.

00:25:53 - What may I take? - Questions are not allowed.

00:33:47 I want to see my mother.

00:37:27 It has ran away.

00:40:37 I see.

00:44:36 The Germans check all the apartments.

00:48:35 You are alone, and they have the whole army.

00:55:07 We have a tradition -

00:58:51 What is your name?

01:02:28 and you will be fired.

01:10:11 Why Shchedryk?

01:15:34 - Where's Yasya? - I don't know, she was somewhere here.

01:18:34 Then we went from house to house and sang songs.

01:23:12 At the conservatory.

01:34:20 Heinrich likes her.

01:41:40 Dinah, he is a child like you are.

01:45:01 - Stop! Freeze! - No! No!

01:49:04 Come on the stage.

01:57:06 Yaroslava.

Cast & Characters

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

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed807

Dialogue density6.6 lines / min

First line00:02:05

Final line01:57:06

Production Record

DirectorOlesya Morhunets

LanguageUkrainian

IMDb votes551

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