
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy , and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting.

as Sofiia Ivaniuk

as Mykhailo Ivaniuk

as Yaroslava Ivaniuk

as Wanda Kalinowska

as Waclaw Kalinowski

as Teresa Kalinowska

as Isaac Herszkowicz

as Berta Herszkowicz

as Dinah Herszkowicz

as Heinrich Krampe

as Walter Krampe

as Irma Krampe

as Mariia

as Yaroslava Ivaniuk (Adult)

as Dinah Herszkowicz (Adult)

as NKVD Officer 1

as NKVD Officer 3

as SD Officer 1

as SD Officer 2

as Robber 1

as Robber 2

as Cabaret Administrator

as Orphanage Director

as Comrade Plakhin

as Comrade Komarov

as Woman at the Airport

as Man at the Airport