On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ukraine lost one in four of its population during the Second World War, the > largest losses of any country and about 20% of the total deaths. > > Simonova's sand story portrays the human loss after the German invasion in > 1941. The opening scene shows a couple sitting on a bench under a starry > sky. Warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated to be replaced by > crying faces. Then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again, but war and > chaos return and a young woman becomes an old widow, before the image turns > into an obelisk – the Ukrainian monument to its Unknown Soldier.
On a similar note, I highly recommend watching Persepolis[1] - A animated fillm (I am not sure that 'Animated film' is the right word since much of the film mirrors the comic feel). The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. -- Vinayak References 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(film)
