A rabbi goes grave-hopping in Ukraine and discovers his soul wasn't where he left it.
Conservative Rabbi Marc Soloway invites us on his personal journey to modern day Ukraine to visit the graves of the Hasidic Masters as he tries to establish a connection with the famous names that have so long occupied a place in his imagination.
Direction
Patient, reverential filming of sacred spaces
Writing
Soloway's vulnerable narration avoids preachiness
Director
Netanel Miles-Yépez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film captures a specific pre-2022 Jewish Ukraine now irrevocably changed by war, making these sites potentially inaccessible or destroyed.
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, interviewed here, died months after filming; this became one of his final on-screen appearances.
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