A brief history of the studio…
2004 On Chanukah 2003 ACC Film Studio produced its first film. The film is about the history of the Synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya St., Moscow since 1883. The film is called “Burnt But Not Consumed” it is in Russian with English subtitles. It was a great hit and was viewed by hundreds of people.
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2006 The second film was produced on January 11th 2006, when a Neo-Nazi broke in to the Synagogue and stabbed 9 people almost killing one of the community members. The film portrays the horror that victims lived through. It includes both live captions of the actual attack and personal recounts by those who were present at the time.
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A month later Nikulin began to work on the second film, about Chasidim and their lives. Similar to the first film, this one too was a huge success. Russian TV and the paper wrote about the hit. The film is soon to be released with English subtitles.
When Nikulin was interviewed, he was asked why he doing this project, He replied,“I think it’s important that the young generation knows and sees what happened in the generation of yesteryear ”
On March 2006 Rabbi Kogan, Rabbi of Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue, asked Director Daniel Nikuln to make a series of films about the Chassidim and their sufferings from the beginning of the Revolution in 1917. Daniel went in full force and in a half a year he completed the first film, about the imprisonment of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson. The movie illustrates the string of divine providence, which led to his complete liberation. The film was a great hit among the Russian Jewish community and also the non-Jewish community. The film has English subtitles and is sold in all major Judaica stores.