20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (2023). Academy Award Winner for Documentary Feature.
Mstyslav Chernov and his team of Ukrainian journalists embedded themselves in Mariupol for some of the earliest days of the Russian invasion and documented it for the Associated Press. It's a brutal bracing first person look at the war (Chernov narrates).
It's not an easy watch and Chernov never shies away from bringing the viewer up close to the events. It's the citizens of Mariupol who are it focus, although the Documentary makes a good case that the city itself is a 'person'. Once vibrant and alive, and now under constant siege.
In Chernov's stirring Oscar acceptance speech, he wishes that he never had to make 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, and as a viewer one may wish to have never seen it. But, watch it we must. It's vital for the story to be told.
Mstyslav Chernov and his team of Ukrainian journalists embedded themselves in Mariupol for some of the earliest days of the Russian invasion and documented it for the Associated Press. It's a brutal bracing first person look at the war (Chernov narrates).
It's not an easy watch and Chernov never shies away from bringing the viewer up close to the events. It's the citizens of Mariupol who are it focus, although the Documentary makes a good case that the city itself is a 'person'. Once vibrant and alive, and now under constant siege.
In Chernov's stirring Oscar acceptance speech, he wishes that he never had to make 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, and as a viewer one may wish to have never seen it. But, watch it we must. It's vital for the story to be told.
