Michale Boganim

Boganim was born the 17 of July 1977 in Haifa to a Modern Orthodox Jewish family with ancestors from Ukraine on her mother's side.

[2] She grew up in France where her family had emigrated in 1984 following the 1982 Lebanon conflict She studied political science and anthropology at the Sorbonne in Paris under Jean Rouch and then completed a degree in sociology, philosophy, and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[9][10] It follows the lives and reminiscences of elderly Russian Jews who remained behind in Odesa after World War II and those who took up a life as exiles in Ashdod, Israel and the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Starring Olga Kurylenko and Andrzej Chyra, it was filmed in Pripyat which had been rendered a ghost city by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

The film was positively reviewed in the French press, including the Cahiers du Cinéma, won several awards, and was broadcast on European television.