In one continuous shot, SHTTL shows the lives, loves, and inner conflicts within a Yiddish speaking shtetl on the border between Ukraine and Poland - one day before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

Moshe Lobel
as Mendele

Anisia Stasevich
as Yuna

Petro Ninovskyi
as Demyan

Saul Rubinek
as Rebbe Weitsenzang

Oleksandr Ivanov
as Soviet officer

Yurko Kritenko
as Shmulke

Oleksandr Yeremenko
as Menachem

Antoine Millet
as Folie

Oksana Zadorozhna
as Oksana

Daniel Kenigsberg
as Shloime