Mariupol documentary screened in Kyiv for 1st time

(4 Jun 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv - 3 June 2023
1. Wide of cinema
2. Various of people inside the cinema
3. Various of people watching "20 days in Mariupol" film
4. Clip from "20 days in Mariupol'
5. Wide of Mariupol police officer Volodymyr Nikulin watching the film
6. Clip from "20 days in Maripol"
7. Wide of medics from Mariupol walking to the stage while people applaud
8. Close of people applauding
9. Mid of film team hugging Mariupol medics
10. Wide of film director Mstyslav Chernov giving a speech UPSOUND (Ukrainian):
"They are not all people that you saw in a movie. They are people who survived and helped us to survive."
11. Film director Mstyslav Chernov handing microphone to Mariupol police officer Volodymyr Nikulin
12. Close of people applauding
13. Mariupol police officer Volodymyr Nikulin giving speech UPSOUND (Ukrainian):
"I am confident that we'll see this movie in Mariupol."
14. Wide of audience applauding
15. Various of people chatting
16. Chernov talking to Mariupol medic Lyudmyla Vaskovska
17. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Lyudmyla Vaskovska, Mariupol hospital medic:
"Before I went to see the movie, I thought about myself, remembered what happened. Honestly, I didn't remember much, but looking at all this, you go back to what was. It is difficult."
18. Wide of Nikulin talking to Associated Press journalists
19. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Nikulin, Mariupol police officer:
"Mariupol has not been overlooked around the world. Russian crimes did not go unnoticed. After that, people all over the world began to help us like real fighters. They saw that no one was going to give up."
20. Chernov talking to the man
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Mstyslav Chernov, "20 days in Mariupol" director:
"It was so emotionally devastating for me to see tears of Ukrainians, to see tears of those who have been with us, those thanks to who we survived. But at the same time it was my duty not only to make this film, but also to show this film. Because the ultimate goal of any film, of any journalism is to bring it to people. This is the history of Ukraine."
22. Various of people in theatre
STORYLINE:
The award-winning film “20 Days in Mariupol” made its premiere in Ukraine on Saturday - and was seen for the first time by some of the Ukrainian medics and first responders who were chronicled in the documentary about how Russian forces bombed and blasted their way into the southeastern port city last year.
Repeated standing ovations in a packed Kyiv cinema, mixed with tears and hugs, greeted those Ukrainian civil servants who toiled nearly non-stop in and around a Mariupol hospital that was a centerpiece of the film about the city early on in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, 2022.
For some, the screening served as an unsettling flashback to their own brush with death in the city - a fate inescapable for untold numbers of other victims of Russia's invasion, including toddlers, infants and expectant mothers whose final moments were caught on video shown in the film.
Many viewers of the the documentary, a joint project between The Associated Press and PBS Frontline, expressed their gratitude that the footage from Mariupol eventually got out to the world for history's sake.
The documentary by AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov was built on some 30 hours of film from reporting along with AP photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and AP producer Vasilisa Stepanenko about the earliest phase of the Russian invasion of Mariupol.
A wider opening in U.S. theaters begins next month.
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[@asbiz2000]

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[@emiliobello2538]

Great documentary

[@user-xp4bj1bv7m]

Кожен в світі повинен подивитися цей фільм, це відбувається в нашій країні кожен день. Росіяне роблять жахливі речі, а потім звинувачують у всьому українців, так було завжди

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Western propaganda

[@JCJW101]

If a film from Ukraine is western propaganda you must think Ukraine is a western country. Typical Vatnik, stupid with no reasoning ability.

[@FriendlierFetus]

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[@zoso73]

Facts are pesky things, aren't they comrade commissar?

[@deniskolarov5299]

​@@zoso73 факты есть факты. Все кто пережил освобождение Мариуполя говорят одно и тоже. Так что тяжело будет продолжать выдумывать сказки. Зачем показали эту женщину с роддому? Там же все показали и рассказали что это актриса и только эта выдумка сразу портит весь фильм, а их там думаю не мало. Да и чо гадать? Ответьте на один вопрос, почему Русские солдаты пришли защищать Украинский народ и гибнут, можно де было просто разбомбить Украину и все быстро бы закончилось без Русских жертв. Вот и вся вам война, чо придумать истории?

[@zoso73]

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