The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls

Uman, Ukraine, is home to 80,000 people. It is also the final resting place of Rebbe Nachman, a prominent figure in Hasidic Judaism, and every year 25,000 faithfuls come to the city in order to celebrate the Jewish new year. Uman has a violent past and the Germans were not the first to commit massacres there. That also happened in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Cosacks who led the charge are today national heroes in Ukraine. Here, Cosacks and Jews are literally face to face, each laying claim to history. But this is also the story of Volodya, an orthodox Ukrainian who during 40 years of Communist rule voluntarily looked after the Jewish burial ground. In order to understand what's going on today, we need to understand history and The Dybbuk is a fine contribution. (Göteborg Film Festival)