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Babiy Yar (film)
''Babiy Yar'' (also known as ''Babij Jar'') is a 2003 film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Michael Degen. Filmed in Europe and given a limited theatrical release, the film recounts the Babi Yar, mass murders in September 1941 of thousands of Jews in Ukraine, Jews, Soviet POWs, communists, Romani people and civilian hostages by Nazi Germany, German ''Einsatzgruppen'', and Ukrainian nationalists, Ukrainian nationalist Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany, collaborators in the title location, a ravine in Kyiv (the capital of Ukraine). The Jerusalem Post (23 October 2011) See also * Babi YarReferences External links * 2003 films Films directed by Jeff Kanew English-language Belarusian films 2003 drama films Holocaust fi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Kanew
Jeffrey Roger Kanew (born December 16, 1944) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and film editor who early in his career made trailers for many films of the 1970s and is probably best known for directing the film '' Revenge of the Nerds'' (1984) and for editing ''Ordinary People''. Kanew directed '' Gotcha!'' (1985) and '' Tough Guys'' (1986), the final film pairing actors Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, having initially directed Douglas in 1983's '' Eddie Macon's Run''. His other directorial efforts include '' Troop Beverly Hills'' starring Shelley Long, '' V.I. Warshawski'' starring Kathleen Turner, ''Natural Enemies'' starring Hal Holbrook and Louise Fletcher, '' Babij Jar'', a Holocaust drama, ''National Lampoon's Adam & Eve'', several TV episodes, and for the stage and video versions of the Kirk Douglas one-man show "Before I Forget" (2009). Kanew also directed the documentary '' Black Rodeo'' (1972), capturing the events surrounding the first ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |