A film that tells the tales of the Crimean Karaites, the Crimean Tatars, and the Ukrainian Gypsys.

Der Film wurde auch auf Deutsch veröffentlicht: siehe hier.

These days, the whole world is looking at Ukraine – a country little known and often misunderstood and, unfortunately, also subjected to slander by a certain neighbouring country’s propaganda apparatus.

ETNIKA is a creative film studio from Kyiv, Ukraine. Since 2004, they have produced a veritable number of documentaries on topics from Ukrainian history, culture, architecture, ethnos, sciences, and more. Etnika wants to make their contribution to show you Ukraine as it is, as we know it and love it: as a united nation with a turbulent history, rich cultural traditions and home to a variety of ethnic groups, who have been living together in peace and tolerance throughout all of Ukraine’s history as an independent state.

This is why they have decided to make some of their documentaries publicly available on the Internet. Here is the first one: “Multinational Ukraine”. This film tells the story of three of the many ethnic groups in Ukraine: The Crimean Karaites, an endangered people of only 1000 souls, 800 of which live in Crimea and 200 elsewhere in Ukraine; the Crimean Tatars, who were expelled and deported by Stalin and only allowed to return to their homeland when Ukraine gained independence with Crimea an integral part of it; and the Gypsys.

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