Babi Yar. Context Official

For decades, the Soviet government suppressed the specifically Jewish nature of the victims, referring to them only as "peaceful Soviet citizens."

Composed entirely of restored black-and-white and color footage from German and Soviet archives. Babi Yar. Context

On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads). Abstract: After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet

The documentary situates the massacre within the broader invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). Babi Yar. Context

Abstract: After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht occupied much of the western Soviet regions. Gettysburg College

Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, this film is a "found footage" documentary that reconstructs the events leading up to and following the massacre of over 33,000 Jews in the Babi Yar ravine.

The "context" of Loznitsa’s title also refers to how the event was handled after the war ended.