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Watch Online / Road to Krasnostav (2015)
Desc: Road to Krasnostav: Directed by Yulia Melamed. The enigma of the Holocaust has changed society and human consciousness. People found out something unpleasant about themselves and their neighbors.... or did they? Or do they still refuse to face the truth? 'Road to Krasnostav'-a film and a riddle about the life and death of a shtetl. But the fate and destruction of a little shtetl raises questions that are still universally relevant today, 74 years later. ....Before the war, two communities, Ukrainians and Jews, lived side by side in a Ukraininan town. In terms of percentages, it was about a 50-50 split. All told, there were over two thousand inhabitants. They lived together peacefully, amicably. They socialized and did business with each other. During the holidays, they would bring each other food and drink. On the main square there was a church, on the neighboring square - a synagogue. At the very beginning of the war, on a warm, sunny day on August 31, 1941, all of the town's the Jews were killed - by three or four German sub-machine gunners, and the rest were local executioners... In a single day... That's one version of what happened. But there's also another.... Seventy-four years later, in May 2015, the descendants of those Jews gathered in Kiev in order to find out the circumstances of the lives and deaths of their forefathers. This fact-finding trip forms the basis of the film's narrative. So who killed the Jews? How does hate grow in people's hearts over the course of a day?