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In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love.In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.From acclaimed Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy, A Gentle Creature), Donbass is a unique take on one of the most disturbing and threatening of contemporary conflicts, a grotesque tour de force, brilliantly, if harrowingly, imaging with stunning cinematography courtesy of Oleg Mutu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).Winner of the Un Certain Regard award for Best Director at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival“Filled with the violence and Orwellian unreality ruling eastern Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa’s feverish procession of scenes is handled with steely control.”– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian “A scathing portrait of a society where human interaction has descended to a level of barbarity more in keeping with late antiquity than the so-called contemporary civilized world.” – Variety
Original Release
08/30/2018
US Release
04/08/2022
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tamara Yatsenko | Plump-faced Woman |
Irina Zayarmiuk | Creature |
Grigory Masliuk | Town Mayor |
Olesya Zhurakivska | Girl with bucket |
Lyudmila Smorodina | Woman in blue |
Boris Kamorzin | Mikhalych |
Mikhail Voloshin | Man in cap |
Evgeny Chepurnyak | Head physician |
Igor Kirilchatenko | First Ukrainian Soldier |
Vladislav Simanko | First guy on the bus |
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tamara Yatsenko | Plump-faced Woman |
Irina Zayarmiuk | Creature |
Grigory Masliuk | Town Mayor |
Olesya Zhurakivska | Girl with bucket |
Lyudmila Smorodina | Woman in blue |
Boris Kamorzin | Mikhalych |
Mikhail Voloshin | Man in cap |
Evgeny Chepurnyak | Head physician |
Igor Kirilchatenko | First Ukrainian Soldier |
Vladislav Simanko | First guy on the bus |
Alexei Beldei | Second guy on the bus |
Yaroslav Bezkorovayny | Soldier in Bandana |
Elena Khizhnaya | Bandersha |
Arsen Bosenko | First separatist |
Thorsten Merten | German journalist |
Oleksandr Techynskyi | Photographer |
Vladimir Lubovsky | Major |
Sergey Russkin | Chapai |
Petro Panchuk | Man in Bomb Shelter |
Daniil Makarov | Boy in Bomb Shelter |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kirill Krasovski | Executive Producer |
Maria Baker-Choustova | Producer |
Jacques Bidou | Producer |
Tina Börner | Producer |
Heino Deckert | Producer |
Marianne Dumoulin | Producer |
Martins Eihe | Producer |
Oana Iancu | Producer |
Dennis Ivanov | Producer |
Katya Lachina | Producer |
Cristian Nicolescu | Producer |
Marc van Warmerdam | Producer |
Peter Warnier | Producer |
Sergey Loznitsa | Producer |