Russian Jews at Molodist Kiev

RUSSIAN JEWS (Russkie Evrei) is an Historical Document compiled and directed by Sergei Nurmamed and narrated by Dmitriy Altschuler-Kurchati. Ukrainian premier, 2016, RT 86'

Part of the Overflow crowd at Molodist screening of "Russian Jews"

Russian narrator Dmitriy Altschuler-Kurchati, fields questions after screening at Kinoteatr Kiev

Because the Jews have had such an impact on Ukrainian history -- both positive and negative, but mostly the latter, (victims of numerous massacres going back to the time of Hetman Khmelnitski and the Baby Yar massacre of 1942, immortalized by Soviet Russian poet Yevtushenko) -- The screening of the new Russian documentary "Russian Jews" was one of the hot tickets of the week here at Molodist, attracting an overflow crowd and was followed by a lengthy and lengthy, heated, Q and A session after the screening in the presence of narrator Dmitriy Altschuler-Kurchati

The film seen here is the first section of a Trilogy tracing the history of the Russian Jews from earliest times up to the present. In part one, seen here, the narrator, Altschuler) takes the audience on a journey from medieval Kyïv "The mother of all Rus cities" to Petrograd (Later Leningrad, today Sankt Peterburg) capital of the Russian Empire, on the eve of its. collapse during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918.

Along the way we are informed of some of the most prominent Russian names and families of Jewish origin, the Musical Rubinsteins, Trotsky, (who was Jewish but rejected Judaism) and many other historical famous figures of Jewish origin.

A central segment is the cynical "Blood Libel" trial of a young Jew accused of a murder he had nothing to with and the supposed use by Jews of "Christian blood" for use in Jewish Rituals. (what this shows, of course, is the primitivity of the deep-seated Anti-Semitism of the Russians)

In another section we are taken for a lingering walk up the Odessa Steps immortalized in the silent film classic "Potemkin" by Russian Jewish director Segei Eisenstein.

Throughout captivating artistic images are superimposed upon the main narrative making for a document that is both visually pleasing and historically Horrifying.

More on this film later

Alex, Hotel Lybdin, Kyïv.