Donbass
First screened in September 2018
Director: Sergei Loznitsa. Cast: Valeriu Andriutã, Natalya Buzko, Evgeny Chistyakov, Georgiy Deliev, Vadim Dubovsky, Konstantin Itunin, Boris Kamorzin, Sergey Kolesov, Svetlana Kolesova, Thorsten Merten, Irina Plesnyayeva, Sergey Russkin, Oleksandr Techynskyi, Alexander Zamuraev, Olesya Zhurakovskaya. Screenplay: Sergei Loznitsa.

Twitter Capsule: Imagine Wild Tales, in and about a nation in fuller, more violent free fall. Loznitsa's nonfiction gifts totally serve it.

VOR:   Boisterous national cross-section as blistering political survey, to a degree unseen since Kusturica's Underground. Devastating, but thrilling.



Photo © 2018 Ma.ja.de Fiction/Arthouse Traffic/
JBA/Graniet Film/Wild at Art/Digital Cube

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: A–


Awards:
Cannes Film Festival: Best Director (Un Certain Regard)

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