Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed Soviet world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for three years. Two decades, 14 films and innumerable scandals later, his original epic is finally coming to Venice — amid a new geopolitical firestorm.
Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed Soviet world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for three years. Two decades, 14 films and innumerable scandals later, his original epic is finally coming to Venice — amid a new geopolitical firestorm.
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Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed Soviet world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for three years. Two decades, 14 films and innumerable scandals later, his original epic is finally coming to Venice — amid a new geopolitical firestorm.
