Shttl

I doubt there is another film with quite the same chutzpah.

Profound in its simplicity, eloquent in its complexity. SHTTL stands alongside other great works about our recent history, bringing to mind the humanism of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List.

Too much of what Walter wants to accomplish feels like a stunt. You can almost hear the filmmaker say to himself, “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.”

A Towering, Single-Take Masterpiece Of The Lives We've Lost.

As such communities have long since been eradicated from the region, the filmmakers constructed an elaborate shetl set...

Debut French director Ady Walter brilliantly immerses the audience into what was once Galicia on June 21, 1941. The camera walks through a vivid crowd of pressures and antagonisms not usually seen in more typical schmaltzy remembrances of such shtetls.