From Hell to Hell

{{Expand Russian|date=April 2024|topic=cult}}{{Infobox film

| name = From Hell to Hell

| image = From Hell to Hell.jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = Dmitry Astrakhan

| producer = Artur Brauner
Tina Yashul

| writer = Artur Brauner
Oleg Danilov

| starring = Valeria Valeeva
Alla Kliouka
Anja Kling

| music = Alexander Pantykin

| cinematography = Yuri Vorontsov

| studio = Belarusfilm

| editing = Vera Kolyadenko

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1997}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = Belarus

| language = German
Russian
Yiddish

}}

From Hell to Hell ({{langx|be|З пекла ў пекла}}; {{langx|ru|Из ада в ад|Iz ada v ad}}) is a 1997 Belarusian drama film about the Kielce pogrom directed by Dmitry Astrakhan.{{cite book|author1=Robert C. Reimer|author2=Carol J. Reimer|title=Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yDEV0R3LGvkC&pg=PA192|date=12 April 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7986-7|pages=192|access-date=24 October 2016|archive-date=5 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305090743/https://books.google.com/books?id=yDEV0R3LGvkC&pg=PA192|url-status=live}}{{cite book|author=Lawrence Baron|title=Projecting the Holocaust Into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9b7r0QFCagC&pg=PA286|year=2005|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-4333-1|pages=286|access-date=24 October 2016|archive-date=5 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305090228/https://books.google.com/books?id=U9b7r0QFCagC&pg=PA286|url-status=live}} The film was selected as the Belarusian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences{{cite web |title=39 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |date=13 November 1996 |url=//www.oscars.org/pressreleases/96.11.13.html |access-date=5 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990209110950/http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/96.11.13.html |archive-date=9 February 1999 |url-status=dead}}

Plot

In 1941, the Polish town Kielce is occupied by the Nazis. The main character, before being sent to a concentration camp, gives her daughter to a Polish family whose child has recently died. When the war has passed, the former prisoner returns to his hometown and wants his daughter returned, but she has grown up not knowing who her real parents were. Internal contradictions and deep spiritual experiences put the heroes in a cruel situation of choice.