Premiere "Culture VS War": what told about the war Akhtem Seitablaev, Taras Topol, Sergey Zhadan

In the new documentary "Culture VS War" Ukrainian directors, actors, writers and musicians who joined the Armed Forces, share personal stories about their participation in the Russian-Ukrainian war, telling how they were changed. At the Bouquet Kyiv Stage festival, which took place last weekend, the premiere of "VS War" was directed by Cadim Tarasov.

It has personal stories about the beginning of the war and how they became soldiers, many Ukrainian stars tell: director and actor Akhtem Seitablaev, Pitatl Sergey Zhadan, rock singer, leader of the group "Antiboda" Taras Topol, operator Alexander Mikhalchuk and others. The most interesting thing in the tape is transformations: how the war changed the stars and how the country itself changed during this time.

A year ago, director Kadim Tarasov began to release cinema about Celebrity, who went to volunteers in the Armed Forces. The heroes of the project, in addition to the above - Dmitry Linartovich (actor, serviceman), Yevgeny Nishchuk (actor, serviceman), Yaroslav Pilunn (cinematographer, serviceman), Taras Kompanichenko (kobzar, serviceman). Odessa Konstantin and Vlad Liberov, who told how they became military documents from wedding photographers.

Then Tarasov successfully combined all these short stories into a single canvas, receiving at the exit a half -hour dynamic movie that could not but be affected. You immediately mention - the beginning of a large -scale war 24. 02. 2022. Not only the events of the time and celebrities, but also ordinary people - witnesses and victims of the Russian Federation's armed invasion: terrible footage of February and March 2022 were etched in the film.

Rock musician Taras Topol recalls: "The first shelling in Kiev. A rocket strike on the TV. , you can die at any time. " Taras shares touching details, as they with his wife (singer Alyosha) tried to hide information about the beginning of the war from their children and wanted to imagine these urgent meetings simply a new, unexpected journey. But only a huge mass of worried people running down the street did not allow the children to be misleading.

Director Akhtem Seitablaev: "For me this war is for nine years. I was in Simferopol on February 27, 2014. In my relatives. I went out at 9 am in the city - and catch something, something wrong? As suddenly I understand: in the city there is no people, which I know my five fingers. Significantly, "You will find out what happened to Akhtem Permissions to speak with the director as an asana. - says Akhtem about the start of talking to the guy. He confessed, "I saw all your movies. " They talked.

"Promise me to be healthy" - completed Seitablaev's dialogue that struck him. Palamara and physician Asana Ziadinova (Romeo call sign) will be released from Russian captivity. Akhtem describes the shock that caused the war: "Borodyanka, Bucha, Irpin - there can be no such reality. It's some kind of apocalypse, but you are in it.

" The Liberov couple, who were wedding photographers in Odessa before the war, began with the fact that Konstantin removed as men at the station said goodbye to their families, sending them to Western Ukraine. There was a shrill series of pictures. Former wedding photographers are hardly accustomed to military reality. "In the beginning we did not want to shoot death," they say in the picture.

"And then we saw how Russian propaganda channels began to refer to our activities: they say, there were professional Ukrainian photographers and their pictures were not dead. The documentary component of our work is also to shoot. The heroes of the project: from confused and shocked, they are collected and ready with weapons in their hands to defend their country. , coordinated-military.