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Ukrainian Docs: Favorites
The Diviners
director: Roman Bordun
Ukraine201960’
In Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles.
In Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles.
The main characters of the film are the inhabitants of the contemporary Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv. Their reality is multi-layered, unvarnished, deprived of unambiguous interpretations of good and evil, humanity and cruelty, charity and indifference. This story is a kaleidoscope, which features all of us: the righteous, the merciless, the funny, the naïve. The honest.
Content warning: coarse language, alcohol abuse.
Director:
Roman Bordun
Producer:
Roman Bordun
Camera:
Roman Bordun
Editing:
Roman Bordun
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