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Donbass

Донбас

2018

Told in a series of grotesque, blackly comic episodes, this film plunges into the surreal, propaganda-soaked chaos of eastern Ukraine's war, where truth and lies, farce and atrocity blur together. Sergei Loznitsa's savage political mosaic.

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Part of 10 Essential Ukrainian Films

This film is stop 7 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Ukraine. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

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