The Unknown Holocaust by Radio Quebec TV Holodomor, The Unknown Famine (April 16th 1983)

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Published on May 24, 2025
Holodomor - The Unknown Famine

The television documentary The Unknown Famine, broadcast by Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec) on April 16, 1983, was the first film in Canada (and perhaps the world) entirely devoted to the Ukrainian genocide. This French-language documentary, produced by Radio-Québec for its Planète program series, was later dubbed into Ukrainian and English.

The 30-minute film brings together the accounts in four languages (Ukrainian, French, English, and Russian) of eyewitnesses to the genocide. Among them are Malcolm Muggeridge, a British author who was one of the first Western journalists (Manchester Guardian) to report on the scale of the famine; Lev Kopelev, a Soviet dissident author now living in the West who participated in the grain confiscation; and Nina Strokata-Karavansky, a former Ukrainian dissident also living in the West. The testimonies are complemented by explanations from Dr. James Mace of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Soviet dissident Dr. A. Babyonyshev of the University of Alberta; Professor Bohdan Bociurkiw of Carleton University in Ottawa; Dr. Bohdan Krawchenko of the University of Alberta; Professor Roman Serbyn of the Université du Québec; and Marco Carynnyk, an author from Toronto.

Director of the film: Claude Caron. Producer of La Planète: Karel Ludvik. Research, script, and interviews by Taras Hukalo.

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