Tzadik (2023)
Original title: Праведник
Tzadik is a 2023 Russian-language war movie directed by Sergei Ursuliak, with a running time of 2h 43m. It stars Aleksandr Yatsenko, Sergey Makovetskiy and Fyodor Dobronravov.
In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.
Cast
- Aleksandr Yatsenko as Kiselev
- Sergey Makovetskiy as Reuben Yankel
- Fyodor Dobronravov as Voronyansky
- Evgeniy Tkachuk as Ferz
- Doval'e Glickman as Moshe Tal
- Dietmar König as Schmuker
- Yuliya Vitruk as Lyuba
- Lyubov Konstantinova as Anya
- Mariya Zolotukhina as Tova Lipnitsky
- Mark Eydelshteyn as Moshe Tal in his youth
- Konstantin Khabenskiy as Moshe's father
- Chulpan Khamatova as Moshe's mother