Yevhen Afineevsky, who was nominated for an Oscar for the film about the Revolution of Dignity, directed the film.
September 7 at the Venice Film Festival< /strong> the premiere of the film “Freedom in Fire” by the American director Yevhen Afineevsky, which tells about the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine, took place. The director himself appeared on the red carpet of the festival, as well as the military correspondent Nataliya Nagorna and the wife of the “Azov” fighter Hanna Zaitseva, Derzhkino reports.
Hanna managed to survive on “Azovstal”, in the bomb shelter of which she and her young son spent about two months. Her husband joined Azov, now he is in Russian captivity. The girl was filtered, but she managed to save the memory card on which what happened in the bomb shelter was recorded. These shots were included in Afineevsky's documentary.
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Filming of the film took place in Ukraine until mid-August and was completed only on August 31, when the President of our country, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke at the opening ceremony of the festival.
Yugen Afinnevskyi was nominated for an Oscar for the film “Winter on Fire: Ukraine's struggle for freedom”, which told about the events of the Revolution of Dignity, when Viktor Yanukovych was removed from power as a result of protests.
Afineevsky's second film not only recounts the full-scale invasion from the accounts of survivors, but also shows how the events of that winter led to Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to annex Crimea, leading directly to the present day.
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