Year of Freedom. Mariupol After DNR

Year of Freedom. Mariupol After DNR
Poster of film
Screenplay by	Ivan Syniepalov
Directed by	Ivan Syniepalov
Country of origin	Ukraine
Original languages	Ukrainian, Russian
Production
Cinematography	Aykhan Hajibayli
Editor	Aykhan Hajibayli
Running time	13 minutes
Production company	Public TV of Azov
Original release
Release	June 13, 2015 (2015-06-13)

Year of Freedom. Mariupol After DNR (Ukrainian: Рік визволення. Маріуполь після ДНР) is a short documentary produced by Public TV of Azov and released on 13 June 2015 - one year after Mariupol was recaptured by the Ukrainian government from pro-Russian separatist of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic. The film describes the events that took place in the port city of Mariupol in south-eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014. The story of the liberation of Mariupol on 13 June 2014, is told by participants of the operation - from a regular soldier to the President of Ukraine.^[1]

Cast

• Petro Poroshenko - President of Ukraine;
• Andriy Biletsky - chief of Azov Battalion;
• Volodymyr Bohonis - chief of staff of Dnipro-1 Regiment;
• Call sign "Prapor" - soldier of Dnipro-1 Regiment.

Reception

The documentary became one of the most popular videos of Public TV of Azov reaching near 200,000 views. It was awarded as a "Best documentary" at the 2016 film festival "KiTy" (Ukrainian: КіТи).^[2] The website "To Inform is to Influence" describes events shown in this documentary as a "proof of the fact that DNR rebels are untrained".^[3]

See also

• The city of the heroes
• Winter that changed us [uk]

External links

• Year of freedom. Mariupol after DNR at IMDb
• Year of freedom. Mariupol after DNR on the official Public TV of Azov website.

References