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THE FORGOTTEN
by Daria Onyshchenko
2019 / Ukraine / Switzerland / 105’
Drama
Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can’t leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.
directed by | Daria Onyschenko |
written by | Daria Onyschenko, Claudia Lehmann |
director of photography | Erol Zubčević |
music by | Martin Skalsky |
production design by | Volodymyr Romanov |
edited by | Simon Gutknecht |
produced by | Igor Savychenko, Claudia Lehmann, Dmytro Kozhema |
cast | Maryna Koshkina, Daniil Kamenskyi, Vasyl Kuharskyi, Oleksii Gorbunov, Anastasya Khalpakhchi-Grinberg, Maria Kulikovska |
casting by | Victoria Nesterenko |
sound design by | Oleksandr Shatkivskyi |
costume design by | Kostyantyn Kravets |
make up by |
Serhii Maurin |
production manager |
Oleksandr Chetyrkyn |
production companies | Directory Films / Lehmann Sisters |
supported by | Government of Ukraine and Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, Federal Office of Culture of Swiss Confederation |
sales agent | WIDE |
Date
16.06.2022