The Forgotten (2019 film)
| The Forgotten | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Daria Onishchenko |
| Written by | Claudia Lehmann Daria Onyshchenko |
| Produced by | Dmytro Kozhema Claudia Lehmann Igor Savychenko |
| Cinematography | Erol Zubcevic |
| Edited by | Simon Gutknecht |
| Music by | Martin Skalsky |
| Distributed by | Arthouse traffic |
Release dates |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Language | Ukrainian |
The Forgotten (Ukrainian: Забуті, romanized: Zabuti) is a Ukrainian-Swiss co-production drama directed by Daria Onishchenko in 2019. The film tells the story of a thirty-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, Nina, who lives in Luhansk, occupied during the Russian-Ukrainian war, and who, due to the ban on the Ukrainian language by the Russian occupation authorities, is forced to retrain from a Ukrainian language teacher to a Russian language teacher, and at the same time struggle with internal experiences and feelings due to a sudden outbreak of love between her and a local seventeen-year-old boy.
The world premiere of the film took place on October 12, 2019, at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival as part of the competition program "1-2" ("Competition of the first and second feature films of young directors"), where the film received a special mention from the jury.[1] The film was presented in Ukraine on August 22, 2020, as part of the non-competitive program of the 49th Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist". The film was released in Ukrainian limited rental on September 3, 2020, and is distributed by Arthouse traffic.[2]
See also
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- War in Donbas
- Cinema of Ukraine
References
- ^ Zwycięzcy 35 Warszawskiego Festiwalu Filmowego.
- ^ Забуті. arthousetraffic.com/ua/, 2020
External links
- The Forgotten at IMDb
- The Forgotten at SwissFilms
- Directory Films profile
