Film screening: SHTTL
Oct 16, 2025 5:15 pm
Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Sponsor
- The Program in Jewish Culture and Society; Slavic Reference Service; Russian, East European and Eurasian Center; History Department
- Cost
- Free and open to the public
- Contact
- Anastasiia Strakhova
- as261@illinois.edu
- Views
- 90
An award-winning film, SHTTL, portrays the lives of people in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town. In one unflinching shot, SHTTL presents a day in the life of a shtetl before it disappears in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The production fully reconstructed a traditional shtetl outside of Kyiv, which is planned to be turned into a museum.
With introductory remarks by Stefan Djordjevic, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department.
Snacks will be provided.