Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Synopsis

This documentary film is dedicated to Yuriy Shukhevych, a long-time political prisoner in Soviet camps, Archbishop Lubomyr Husar of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and cancer surgeon Boris Bilinsky. They were classmates: in 1944, they studied together at the First Lviv Gymnasium. Having gone through many twists and turns in life, they communicate so naturally, as if those decades had never existed. They have a lot to remember and a lot to tell each other. But the pleasant and bitter memories in Jacob's Ladder sound as if no one but their former classmates are around...