EXCLUSIVE: SHTTL, an ambitious under-the-radar drama which is the feature helming debut of writer/director Ady Walter, has wrapped in Ukraine.
The film is eyeing the 2022 festival circuit and tells the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (aka the Barbarossa operation) which would take their lives.A passion project for all involved, the film was made with an international cast of actors, including Saul Rubinek (The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, Hunters, Unforgiven) speaking Yiddish in a village built for the film which will now be transformed into an open-air museum.
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