Jura, a young biologist, works at the Natural History Museum. His life is quiet, his only concern is his mother's obsessive admirer, who loudly quotes passages from Jonathan Livingston Seagull at home. While searching for the endangered mountain pipit on the steppes of southern Ukraine, Jura witnesses a deliberate arson. When he reveals the information to the local newspaper, he is quickly disillusioned - no one cares about the truth. The region is in chaos, with fake information, corrupt elections and a sense of impending invasion among the population. Bondarchuk, one of Ukraine's most prominent filmmakers, completed the film during the war, making The Editorial Office a kind of ode to his native Kherson. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival's Forum programme.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 6 min.
- Country, year
- Ukraine, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, 2024
- Genre
- Drama, Comedy
- Language
- Ukrainian, English
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Roman Bondarchuk
- Screenplay
- Roman Bondarchuk, Dar'ya Averchenko, Alla Tyutyunnik
- Producers
- Dar'ya Averchenko, Darya Bassel, Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer, Viktoria Khomenko, Olexandra Kravchenko, Katarina Krnacova, Dagmar Sedlácková
- Cinematography
- Vadym Ilkov, Dar'ya Averchenko, Volodymyr Berezhniy, Lidia Biletska, Bohdan Demchyshyn, Jakub Hranik, Vadym Ilkov, Yevhen Kovalenko, Artem Kravets, Viktor Onysko, Vadym Smarchenko, Oleksandr Techynskyi
- Music
- Anton Baibakov
- Cast
- Dmytro Bahnenko, Zhanna Ozirna, Rimma Zyubina
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
Director
Roman Bondarchuk
Kherson-born feature and documentary filmmaker, author, artistic director of the DocuDays festival. Graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. He debuted with the feature film Volcano (2018), which toured more than 50 film festivals and was awarded the prestigious National Shevchenko Prize. Ukrainian Sheriffs was also noticed worldwide and became an Oscar nominee in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The political satire The Editorial Office is the director's second feature-length film.
