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''From Hell to Hell'' (; ) is a 1997 Belarusian
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
about the
Kielce pogrom The Kielce pogrom was an outbreak of violence toward the Jewish community centre's gathering of refugees in the city of Kielce, Poland, on 4 July 1946 by Polish soldiers, police officers, and civiliansDmitry Astrakhan Dmitry Hananovich Astrakhan (; born March 17, 1957) is a Russian film director and actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2009). Biography Dmitry Astrakhan was born in the family of Leningrad historians Hanan Markovich Astrakhan and ...
. The film was selected as the Belarusian entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film The following is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various films, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Bes ...
at the
69th Academy Awards The 69th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 24, 1997, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremo ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences


Plot

In 1941, the Polish town
Kielce Kielce (; ) is a city in south-central Poland and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the banks of the Silnic ...
is occupied by the
Nazi Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...
s. The main character, before being sent to a concentration camp, gives her daughter to a Polish family whose child has recently died. When the war has passed, the former prisoner returns to his hometown and wants his daughter returned, but she has grown up not knowing who her real parents were. Internal contradictions and deep spiritual experiences put the heroes in a cruel situation of choice.


Cast

* Valeria Valeeva as Fela *
Anja Kling Anja Kling (born 22 March 1970) is a German actress. She is the younger sister of actress Gerit Kling. Selected filmography * ' (1989) * ''Landschaft mit Dornen'' (1992, TV film) * ' (1994, TV series) * ' (1995) * ' (1995, TV miniseries) * '' ...
as Helena Golde * Gennadi Svir as Henryk Golde * Alla Kliouka as Anna Sikorska * Gennady Nazarov as Andrzej Sikorski * Vladimir Kabalin as Bashnak


See also

*
List of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non- English-speaking films ...
*
List of Belarusian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Belarus has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1994. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outsid ...


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* 1997 films 1997 drama films 1990s German-language films 1990s Russian-language films Belarusian drama films Yiddish-language films Belarusfilm films Holocaust films {{1990s-drama-film-stub Films set in 1941 Films directed by Dmitry Astrakhan