directed by Mstyslav Chernov, Ukraine, 2023, 94 min., original version with Italian subtitles
 

A team of journalists entered the port city of Mariupol on the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During the ensuing siege, as the bombs fell all around, the inhabitants fled and access to electricity, food and water was cut off. The reporters, the only people left in the city, struggled to recount the atrocity of the war until, surrounded by Russian troops, they sought refuge in a hospital, where they were trapped. Their pictures, broadcast by the media worldwide, documented death and destruction, giving the lie to Russia disinformation. In the face of such grief and pain, Ukrainian director and journalist Mstyslav Chernov began to wonder whether filming could still make a difference, but it was the citizens of Mariupol themselves who begged him to continue so that the world could be a witness to the horror.

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