Close Relations

Close Relations (2016)

22 Sep 2017 • Documentary • 1h 52m
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Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbas, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director's own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych's flight to Russia. But below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict's deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries.

Vitaliy Manskiy
Director
Vitaliy Manskiy
Writer

Starring

Language: Russian, Ukrainian
Awards: 4 nominations
Country: Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine
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7.1

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