Montreal Premiere of Documentary “Okradena Zemlya”

The Montreal Premiere of “Okradena Zemlya” (Genocide Revealed) will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at the Ukrainian Youth Centre, 3260 Beaubien Street East. The Ukrainian–language documentary film about the 1932-1933 famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine is produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Yurij Luhovy, The premiere is sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Quebec Provincial Chapter, the Ukrainian Youth Association, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Canada and the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association, Montreal.

Pre-production work on the documentary film about Ukraine’s famine-genocide began in February 2008 and was shot on location in Eastern Ukraine in May and June 2008, in areas where there was famine in 1932-1933. “Okradena Zemlya” is based on recently uncovered archival documents, interviews with historians, and first hand accounts by survivors and eye-witnesses. The aim of the film is to show that the 1932-1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine was a genocide perpetrated by Stalin and the Soviet government in Moscow.

All proceeds from the Montreal Premiere go to help offset the remaining costs of the documentary “Okradena Zemlya”.  The English-language version called “Genocide Revealed” will soon follow, to be used in schools and universities in the study of 20^th century genocide.

A Toronto Pre-miere of “Okradena Zemlya” will be held this upcoming June.  To arrange for a film showing in your city or to financially help support the making of the documentary, please call 514-481-5871 or e-mail Yurij Luhovy directly at mmlinc@hotmail.com or write to 2330 Ave. Beaconsfield, Montreal, Quebec H4A 2G8.