Last Sunday a Ukrainian film crew left on a tour of NATO member states to make a movie about the North Atlantic alliance. The production is being sponsored by Ukraine’s foreign affairs and defense ministries.
Filming will take approximately two months. The main objective of the project is to present a true picture of the alliance, now the subject of heated public debates in Ukraine. The final product will be a multipart documentary provisionally entitled NATO: Friend or Foe? The filmmakers have promised to visit some military barracks in Germany to talk to soldiers and share a meal with them in the mess. The cameraman is going to accompany Dutch servicemen when they go home for the weekend by car or bike.
The film will be shot by a special group called Rozmai Media Center in conjunction with 1+1 TV and journalists from Radio Era. As the crew members travel from place to place, they will recount their adventures. The film is directed by Leonid Bukhtiyarov and written by the journalist Yuriy Lukanov. The producer is Vadym Castelli, a film director, who has made some feature and documentary films, including A Present for Margaret Thatcher and Hunt for the Cossack Gold, a prize winner at many film festivals.
Bukhtiyarov and Lukanov promise to finish the film by this coming fall.
