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    Horrors of war

    Oct 28, 2021 3 minutes
    Christopher Silvester on Cinema

    ● SHOWING AT THIS YEAR’S London Film Festival were two extraordinary films from Eastern Europe. The first of these, Babi Yar. Context, is a documentary by the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa about before and after the September 1941 massacre by machine gun fire of 31,771 Jews at Babi Yar, a ravine outside Kiev.

    Thankfully, there is no footage of the massacre itself to harrow us and the director chooses instead to insert a long, scrolling title extracted from a 1943 Vasily Grossman essay, “Ukraine without Jews”. But otherwise Loznitsa has

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