Toronto Premiere ‘U Are the Universe’ Offers Star-Crossed Love in Interstellar Ukrainian Sci-Fi Dramedy, Drops Teaser (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Not long after he’s canned from his job as an intergalactic trucker for the biggest nuclear waste disposal company in Eastern Europe, Ukrainian Everyman Andriy Melnyk is blinded by a flash of light as his clunky cargo ship hurtles across the galaxy.
When he comes to, his robot assistant, Maxim, informs him that the Earth has blown up, and Andriy is the only living soul left in the universe.
Just a typical day for a cosmonaut in the interstellar gig economy. Melnyk is the unlikely hero of “U Are the Universe,” a sci-fi romantic dramedy that marks the feature directorial debut of Ukraine’s Pavlo Ostrikov.
Produced by Anna Yatsenko and Volodymyr Yatsenko, whose credits include Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Venice prize-winning science-fiction drama “Atlantis,” the film world premieres Sept.
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