‘Klondike’ Director Maryna Er Gorbach Talks Prophetic Film That Foresaw Russian Invasion – Contenders International
deadline.comMaryna Er Gorbach’s drama Klondike revolves around a Ukrainian couple on the cusp of parenthood whose lives are turned upside down by the rise of the Russia-backed separatist movement in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
The pair are impacted further by the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over the region in July 2014, which leaves debris strewn over their property and further ratchets up tensions in the area. RELATED: The Contenders International – Deadline’s Full Coverage “MH17 was very a shocking event for Ukraine, but after this shock we thought it would be a really symbolic event, because it was not so easy to ignore, and that there would be an international judgment in the court for answers on who was responsible,” Er Gorbach said Saturday during a Contenders International panel for the film. “But at the time, it was totally ignored.
There was this mirage that it was a local war,” she continued. “In my mind it was a good story to start talking about what was happening in the context of world security and safety.
We really live in the same world.” Dutch judges finally ruled last month, more than eight years after the event, that a Russian-supplied missile fired by Ukrainian separatists caused the tragedy that killed 289 civilian passengers and crew.
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