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
