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Film Review: FAMINE — 33 HALYNA KUZYSZYN Director Oles Yanchuk recreates the man-made famine of 1933 on screen. Using minimal elements of plot or dialogue, along with black and white photography, Mr. Yanchuk focuses on the quest for survival of the Katrannyk family. The starvation and despair tears the family apart, and not even the mother, Odarka, can hold on to her strength, to keep them together. Halyna Sulyma — in the role of Odarka Katrannyk, clutching to a loaf of bread in the film Famine-33. Photos courtesy Famine-33 press kit. The world was completely indifferent to the horrors of Stalin’s forced collectivization in Ukraine and resulting famine, when millions of Ukrainians died of starvation in 1932-33. There are still many people today, who know nothing about this tragedy. It is therefore very important that Director Oles Yanchuk brought this tragedy to the screen in his 1991 film Famine-33, based on the novel “The Yellow Prince" by Ukrainian writer Vasyl Barka. The film is a Dovzhenko Feature Film Studios production, and has been screened at various North American theatres since 1992. It’s New York City scre ening at the Film Forum 1 theater on West Houston Street ran from December 15 to January 12, 1994. Halyna Sulyma plays Odarka Katrannyk, a mother who desperately wants to keep her family (consisting of her husband Myron, played by Georgi Moroziuk, her mother-in-law, daughter Olenka, and sons Mykola and Andrij) alive. The year is 1932 and the film opens with a Sunday Mass at the village church. This scene is in color, unlike the rest of the film. People are praying, when all of a sudden local Communist thugs barge in, interrupt the service and, despite the resistance of the congregation, strip the church of icons, candlesticks and other valuables. One village woman, however, manages to hide the gold chalice. The thugs cut down the church bell which falls to the ground and shatters upon impact. The Katrannyk family watches in horror how the party thugs enforce orders from the Kremlin to confiscate all food for the State. Myron and his youngest son Andrij see a man getting beaten during a walk in the ’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЛЮТИЙ 1994 19
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