Director Yevhen Tytarenko (callsign “Director”) has been working on the movie War for Peace for the whole year. He went to the frontline just out of the occupied Crimea, leaving his own movie studio behind. In September he arrived in Shchastia, Luhansk oblast, and met Yana Zinkevych, Chief Medical Officer of The Hospitallers. Having become a part of the team, director shared with them the joys and sorrows of the everyday life on the frontline. Pisky, Stanytsia Luhanska, Shyrokyne, Shakhta – his camera captured almost every hot spot of the war, producing 120 hours of footage, which contain pain, fire, philosophical conversations in moments of calmness, frontline humor (definitely darker than the polar night) and nonfictional stories. The movie shows the multifaceted and peculiar life in the ATO zone – as if from another dimension, the one where other laws and values reign, different from that of the “Mainland.” The War for Peace is the young director’s debut work in the feature-length format; Ukrainian audience is already familiar with the expressive short movies of his.
“The hardest part is when you have to edit the film that depicts the Load 200,” Yevhen shares the details of the workflow. “When you see death in reality, the feeling is not that macabre compared to editing the video and scrolling through it and again ten times in a row. This is the moment when the depression truly hits you in the face.”
The time and the place for this premiere will be announced before November. All the relevant information will be shared on the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/warforpeacefilm). The page also features excerpts from the documentary.
