Tzadik

Tzadik (2023)

Праведник

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.

Date of release
2023-02-16
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (16)
Runtime
2h 43m
Genres
War, Drama, History
Director
Sergei Ursuliak

Casting

Interesting facts

Pravednik or Tzadik in English is a 2023 Russian World War II film directed by Sergei Ursuliak. The historical drama film is based on the real story of the Soviet partisan officer the Avenger detachment, Nikolai Kiselev, who saved over 200 Jews from the Nazis in World War II.

Production

The film was directed by Sergei Ursuliak.

It was a joint production of WeiT Media, Central Partnership, Nikita Mikhalkov's Studio TriTe, and the Russia-1 TV channel, with the support of the Cinema Fund and the Kievskaya Ploshchad Group of Companies.

Location filming process took place on August 5, 2021. It took place in the village of Zabrodje, Vileyka District, Minsk Region in Belarus, the cities of Saint Petersburg, Vyborg, and Leningrad Oblast in Russia, and in Israel. In Belarus, the film team worked exactly in those places where historical events unfolded.

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