Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbass, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director’s own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych’s flight to Russia. But below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict’s deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.4/10 | |
Released: | September 22, 2017 | |
Runtime: | 112 min | |
Genres: | Documentary | |
Companies: | Baltic Film Production Ego Media Saxonia Entertainment Vertov Studio 435 Films Vertov | |
Crew: | Vitaliy Manskiy | |
JohnDillinger81 : is there any version without the voice over ?