In July 2014, many still believed that the situation in Donbas would soon calm down. Even Irka stubbornly refuses to leave her house, despite the fact that she is about to give birth. She has no idea that the contested right to stay here will cost her a huge price. Emotionally torn between a passively pro-Russian husband and an actively anti-separatist brother, she begins to understand the laws of war too late. The evocative film based on real events depicts the drama of a mother responsible for her future life in thoughtful compositions that bear witness to the deeply destructive nature of war in every shot.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 40 min.
- Country, year
- Türkiye, Ukraine, 2022
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Ukrainian, Dutch, Russian
- Subtitles
- English, Lithuanian
- Age rating
- N-18
Credits
- Director
- Maryna Er Gorbach
- Screenplay
- Maryna Er Gorbach
- Producers
- Svyatoslav Bulakovskiy, Mehmet Bahadir Er, Maryna Er Gorbach
- Cinematography
- Svyatoslav Bulakovskiy
- Music
- Zviad Mgebry
- Cast
- Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin, Oleg Shevchuk, Oleg Shcherbina
Director
Maryna Er Gorbach
Maryna Er Gorbach studied in Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema & Television University (Ukraine), later she graduated from Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing (Poland). Since 2017 Maryna Er Gorbach has been a member of the European Film Academy
