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Donbass

Deutschland Ukraine Frankreich Rumänien Niederlande 2018 Spielfilm

When war is called peace, when propaganda is uttered as truth, when hatred is declared to be love, life itself begins to resemble death. Surviving Donbass. A practical guide to Inferno.

The action of the film takes place in a region of Eastern Ukraine, occupied by various criminal gangs, which are fighting at once with the Ukrainian regular army, with other gangs and with Russian troops. The context in which the action takes place is a hybrid war, happening alongside an open armed conflict, accompanied by robberies on a mass scale and gradual degradation of the civilian population. There is fear, deception, hatred and violence everywhere. Society is collapsing, and death and deadly silence lie upon the place. The state of war reaches its climax.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Sergei Loznitsa

Screenplay

  • Sergei Loznitsa

Director of photography

  • Oleg Mutu

Editing

  • Danielius Kokanauskis

Cast

  • Boris Kamorzin
    Mann im Regenmantel
  • Valeriu Andriuță
    Kommandant
  • Tamara Yatsenko
    Frau
  • Liudmyla Smorodyna
    Einwohnerin von Donbass
  • Olesya Zhurakovskaya
    Böse Frau
  • Sergej Russkin
    Vermummter Mann
  • Petro Panchuk
    Einwohner von Donbass
  • Irina Plesnyaeva
    Hübsche junge Frau
  • Zanna Lubgane
    Einwohnerin von Donbass
  • Vadim Dobuvsky
    Vorarbeiter

Production company

  • Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH (Leipzig)
  • Arthouse Traffic (Kiew)
  • JBA Productions S.a.r.l. (Paris)
  • Graniet Film BV (Amsterdam)
  • Wild At Art (Amsterdam)
  • Digital Cube (Bukarest)

Producer

  • Heino Deckert
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Maria Choustova

Alle Credits

Director

  • Sergei Loznitsa

Screenplay

  • Sergei Loznitsa

Director of photography

  • Oleg Mutu

Set design

  • Kirill Shuvalov

Make-up artist

  • Tamara Frid

Costume design

  • Dorotha Roqueplo

Editing

  • Danielius Kokanauskis

Sound

  • Vladimir Golovnitski

Casting

  • Maria Choustova

Cast

  • Boris Kamorzin
    Mann im Regenmantel
  • Valeriu Andriuță
    Kommandant
  • Tamara Yatsenko
    Frau
  • Liudmyla Smorodyna
    Einwohnerin von Donbass
  • Olesya Zhurakovskaya
    Böse Frau
  • Sergej Russkin
    Vermummter Mann
  • Petro Panchuk
    Einwohner von Donbass
  • Irina Plesnyaeva
    Hübsche junge Frau
  • Zanna Lubgane
    Einwohnerin von Donbass
  • Vadim Dobuvsky
    Vorarbeiter
  • Alexander Zamurayev
    Einwohner von Donbass
  • Georgi Delijew
    Batianya
  • Sergei Kolesov
    Ivan Pavlovich Yaichnitsa / Beha
  • Thorsten Merten
    Deutscher Journalist Michael Walter

Production company

  • Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH (Leipzig)
  • Arthouse Traffic (Kiew)
  • JBA Productions S.a.r.l. (Paris)
  • Graniet Film BV (Amsterdam)
  • Wild At Art (Amsterdam)
  • Digital Cube (Bukarest)

in co-production with

  • Atoms & Void (Den Haag)

Producer

  • Heino Deckert
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Maria Choustova

Co-Producer

  • Denys Ivanov
  • Jacques Bidou
  • Marianne Dumoulin
  • Cristian Nicolescu
  • Oana Iancu
  • Marc van Warmerdam
  • Peter Warnier

Unit production manager

  • Kirill Krasovskiy

Original distributor

  • Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH (Berlin)

Funding

  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM) (Leipzig)
  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Eurimages (Straßburg)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Media Programm der EU (Brüssel)
  • Nederlands Fonds voor de Film (Amsterdam)
  • Centre National de la Cinématographie (C.N.C.) (Paris)
  • Ukrainian State Film Agency (UA)
Duration:
121 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (FR): Mai 2018, Cannes, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 30.06.2018, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 30.08.2018

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Donbass

Versions

Original

Duration:
121 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (FR): Mai 2018, Cannes, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 30.06.2018, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 30.08.2018

Awards

IFF Cannes 2018
  • Un Certain Regard-Preis, Un Certain Regard, Beste Regie
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/donbass_61093046a4eb4b339b848324a39e730e