malalitka, who also included his materials, because the two of them went there with the producer ins all about filming, but at the same time audience, it is made so tensely enough, it is made, well, almost like a documentary thriller, it keeps the attention, but at the same time it is not non-manipulative, more precisely , there is no such cheap manipulation that you can hear in other documentaries of the world, and here in we, too, now have many tapes about the war, where there is such sad music, and it makes you feel some kind of emotion. and i am not very pleased to watch such tapes, where as a viewer i am directly forced to feel something, not here, here there is respect for the viewer, and it seems to me that this is what gave the 20 days in mariupol such a powerful global fame, because when you go to various discussions, there are such special sites in the world where you can come and write a review of almost any film, give it evaluation, but i saw mostly positive reviews. admired by the world audience, so we are waiting for the oscar, and whether our group will receive an osc

malalitka and producer vasylisa stepanenko. it was they who filmed the first weeks of battles and the blockade together. to the russian army of mariupol in 2022, in his speech during the presentation of the statuette, mstislav chernov said that he would easily exchange this award for the fact that there would be no war in ukraine. it is a great honor for me, but i will probably be the first director on this stage to say: i wish i had never made this film. i would like to be able to exchange it for russia never attacking ukraine, never occupying ours cities i would give everything for... that russia does not kill tens of thousands of my countrymen, i want them to release all the hostages, all the soldiers defending their land, all the civilians who are now in their prisons. and i would like to note that this is not the first award that the film 20 days in mariupol received. previously, the creators of the film , mstislav chernov, vasylisa stepanenko and yevhen maloletka, became laureates of the pulitziv prize, the highest journa