The Word

Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine, 1933. The elite of Ukrainian culture live in Kharkiv’s House of Writers, also known as “the Word”. After a decade of flourishing activity by Ukrainian writers, everything changed. In the middle of the night, the NKVD takes away one of the writers, who is then declared an enemy of the people. Now, two of his friends, famous writers, must choose how to protect themselves and their families from the terrible fate that hangs over the entire house, a house that will later be called “the Crematorium”, and the artists who lived in it “the murdered Ukrainian renaissance”. (Camerimage)