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"Ladies Tailor"
1990
Directed by Leonid Gorovets

Also known as "Damskij Portnoj" Two families are housed together as they await the deportation of Kiev's Jews in September of 1941, just prior to the Germans' execution of 96,000 Jews at Babi Yar. As their final hours approach, patriarch Isaac and his family share the most somber of moments and intimate of feelings with their new housemates. A deeply affecting portrayal of the Holocaust on a very human scale.  With Innokenti Smoktunovsky and Tatyana Vasilyeva. Russian with English subtitles.  92 minutes.