The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
In one continuous shot, SHTTL shows the lives, loves, and inner conflicts within a Yiddish speaking shtetl on the border between Ukraine and Poland - one day before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Ady WalterDirector
- Ady WalterScreenplay
- David FedermannOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Moshe LobelMendele
- Anisia StasevichYuna
- Petro NinovskyiDemyan
- Saul RubinekRebbe Weitsenzang
- Oleksandr IvanovSoviet officer
- Yurko KritenkoShmulke
- Oleksandr YeremenkoMenachem
- Antoine MilletFolie
- Oksana ZadorozhnaOksana
- Daniel KenigsbergShloime
- Kostiantyn AfanasievYoung comsomol
- Sharon AzrieliDinah
Stills
Themes
holocaust (shoah)world war iijewish liferomancecoming of ageblack and whitejewish cultureukrainian villageyiddish languagelove storyjewish historyukrainian culture