In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.
- 6.8
- 2018
- Released
- 2h 2m
Tamara Yatsenko
Plump-faced Woman
Iryna Zayarmiuk
Creature
Hryhoriy Masliuk
Town Mayor
Olesia Zhurakivska
Girl with Bucket
Liudmyla Smorodina
Woman in Blue
Boris Kamorzin
Mikhalych
Mikhail Voloshin
Man in Cap
Yevhen Chepurniak
Head Physician
Ihor Kyrylchatenko
First Ukrainian Soldier
Vladyslav Simanko
First Guy on the Bus
Oleksii Beldei
Second Guy on the Bus
Yaroslav Bezkorovainyi
Soldier in Bandana
Olena Khyzhna
Bandersha
Arsen Bosenko
First Separatist
Thorsten Merten
German JournalistVolodymyr Lubovsky
Major
Sergey Russkin
Chapai
Petro Panchuk
Man in Bomb Shelter
Daniil Makarov
Boy in Bomb Shelter
Irina Plesnyaeva
Pretty Woman
Halyna Kornieieva
Mother
Zanna Lubgane
Coloured Blonde
Vadym Dubovsky
Fat Faced Boss
Valeriu Andriuță
Commander
Serhii Smeian
Soldier in Balaclava
Alexander Zamuraev
Semyon
Georgiy Deliev
Batyana
Valeriy Antonyuk
Captive
Iryna Kravchenko
Old Woman at the Bus Stop
Valerii Pasichnyk
Commander at the Bus Stop
Konstantin Itunin
Guy in White Shirt
Evgeny Chistyakov
Guy with SkullOlexandr Cheryomushkin
Guy in Jacket
Nina Antonova
Old Woman in Black
Viktor Aldoshyn
Old Man in White Hat
Olena Bondareva-Repina
Fat Woman
Sergey Kolesov
Bekha
Svetlana Kolesova
Giurza
Natalya Buzko
Woman in Red
Released
uk
$2,650,000.00
- #black humor
- #based on true story
- #social satire
- #russian occupation
- #donbass war
- #2010s
Reviews
_**Angry, trenchant, and viciously satirical**_ >_Checkpoints and barricades made out of tires have been installed on the highways of the Донецьк [Donetsk] region of Донба́с [Donbass]. In the cities, administrative buildings have been seized. Groups of masked men armed with sticks and bats control the roads and search the passing transport. Using crowds of civilians as a shield, "the little gre