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Completed - UKRANIAN - Historical, Drama - 90 minutes

Log Line

1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's iconoclastic star director, depicting the events of Ukraine 1920s 'civil war'.

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Mark HAMMOND
Writer(s) : Zaza BUADZE, Mark GRES, Mark HAMMOND, Andriy KOKOTUHA, Lesya VOLOSHINA
Cast : Darya ASTAFIEVA, Timofey TRIBUNTSEV, Volodymyr YAMNENKO, Andrejs ZAGARS

Producer(s) : Volodymyr FILIPPOV, Alla OVSYANNIKOVA, Andriy SUYARKO

Synopsis

1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's iconoclastic star director, depicting the events of Ukraine 1920s 'civil war'. The re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, a recent graduate of the Moscow Film Institute. However, as her work progress, she comes to understand that despite the risks she must betray the Party to protect the director's vision, and safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet Occupation.

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Country(ies) : UKRAINE, LITHUANIA


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