New Film: The Righteous

On February 16, Russian cinemas hosted the premiere of the film The Righteous directed by Sergei Ursulyak and dedicated to the heroic feat of the Soviet partisan Nikolai Kisilev (1913-1974) who saved more than 200 Jews from the Dolginovo Ghetto (Minsk District of Belarus).

In August-October 1942, Kisilev managed to walk the Jews through forests out of the front line. In 2005, the Israeli state memorial Yad Vashem awarded him with the title of Righteous Among the Nations. Ursulyak’s new film is notable for containing numerous phrases in Yiddish, as well as the Yiddish song “Lomir ale ineynem” (“Let’s all together”), featured as the film’s theme song.