As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 34 wins & 49 nominations total
Liudmyla Amelkina
- Self - Mariupol Resident
- (as Lyudmyla Amelkina)
Roman Golovanov
- Self - Correspondent
- (archive footage)
- …
Igor Konashenkov
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sergey Lavrov
- Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
- (archive footage)
Ernest Matskyavichyus
- Self - Journalist
- (archive footage)
Vasiliy Nebenzya
- Self - Russian Ambassador to the UN
- (archive footage)
Volodymyr Nikulin
- Self - Police Officer
- (as Volodymyr)
Vladimir Putin
- Self - President of Russia
- (archive footage)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Self - President of Ukraine
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaA photograph by Evgeniy Maloletka of the injured pregnant woman being carried from the maternity hospital, was awarded "World Press Photo of the Year" in 2023. Her name was Irina Kalinina (32 years old). Her baby, named Miron (after the word for 'peace') was stillborn, and then his mother died in half an hour.
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Self - Narrator and interviewer: When we were in the hospital, one of the doctors told me, "War is like an X-Ray. All human insides become visible. Good people become better, bad people worse".
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I saw this in a well-attended cinema screening just the other day. I can't recall a film having the impact this one did. At the end credits - silence. No one said a word and slowly filtered out. Its difficult not being effected by this film, as it confronts the viewer with the sort of hard-hitting stuff that the news generally air-brushes out. Its pretty much the exact opposite of comfort viewing - this film confirms not only are things bad but they are probably a lot worse than you imagined them to be.
As the title indicates, this is a ground level view of events in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the first 20 days of the Russian invasion. A disembodied voice-over relates details and an ominous soundtrack magnifies certain moments but mostly, the footage speaks for itself. The basic set-up has journalist Mstyslav Chernov stay behind to film events as the horror of war escalates on a daily basis. From Chernov's position, we are put directly into the war zone and are confronted with the civilian experience. To this end, we are forced to see the terror and suffering that these innocent people are forced to endure on account of a war initiated for utterly disingenuous reasons. While this is clearly a film about the Ukrainian situation and the sheer wrongness of the Russian invasion, it also will get you thinking that it is also about war in general, as these shocking moments are happening all over our world as part of various military conflicts. We can become desensitised to this and our news reporting is often far too sanitised, allowing us to more easily disconnect. Its films like this one which approaches war in the opposite way and ensures the viewer has no easy escape.
As the title indicates, this is a ground level view of events in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the first 20 days of the Russian invasion. A disembodied voice-over relates details and an ominous soundtrack magnifies certain moments but mostly, the footage speaks for itself. The basic set-up has journalist Mstyslav Chernov stay behind to film events as the horror of war escalates on a daily basis. From Chernov's position, we are put directly into the war zone and are confronted with the civilian experience. To this end, we are forced to see the terror and suffering that these innocent people are forced to endure on account of a war initiated for utterly disingenuous reasons. While this is clearly a film about the Ukrainian situation and the sheer wrongness of the Russian invasion, it also will get you thinking that it is also about war in general, as these shocking moments are happening all over our world as part of various military conflicts. We can become desensitised to this and our news reporting is often far too sanitised, allowing us to more easily disconnect. Its films like this one which approaches war in the opposite way and ensures the viewer has no easy escape.
- Red-Barracuda
- Jan 17, 2024
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- 20 днів у Маріуполі
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- $21,949
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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