Original title: Kolky
Copyright: Nataliya Mikhalchuk, 2008
Format: short documentary
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 24 min.   
Original language: Ukrainian with English narrative
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Natasha Mikhalchuk
Writer: Natasha Mikhalchuk
Cinematographer: Natasha Mikhalchuk
Sound: Marlena Grzaslewicz
Title design: Lev Sloujitel

Synopsis
Nataliya Mikhalchuk's personal journey to the village of Kolky in Vinnytsia province of Ukraine to retrace the family history of her father's parents reveals a wealth of memories and eye-witness testimonies of the tragic history of Ukraine. Narrated by old women of Kolky Hanna Hlabay, Tetiana Martyniuk, Hanna Zaremba, and Annisia Hrabarchuk who knew Ms. Mykhalchuk's great parents, these stories vividly portray such calamities visited on Ukrainians by foreign occupiers as the Great Famine of 1932-1933, Soviet collectivization, the destruction of peasants as a social class, World War Two and slave labor in Nazi Germany, the post-war famine. The frankness and simplicity of narrative are both facinating and striking.