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The Forgotten (2019)

The Forgotten (2019)

Drama
Release Date: 2019, October 9
Directors: Daria Onyshchenko
Countries: Switzerland, Ukraine
Production: Directory Films, Jovera Pictures AG/SA, Lehmann Sisters, Ukrainian Institute
Cast: Volodymyr Yamnenko, Maryna Koshkina, Andrii Titov, Oleksiy Horbunov, Vasyl Kukharskyi, Serhii Smeian, Danyil Kamenskyi, Lyublyana Fenchak, Yaroslav Ihnatenko

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

donbass war russian invasion of ukraine (2022)