Eastern Front, shown at the Berlin film festival, offers an uncensored view from the frontline of conflict
who has made a documentary about the gruesome everyday reality of his battalion’s work has said he wanted to offer an uncensored view from the heart of the conflict in order to “wake up the world”.
“The TV news is comparatively easy on the eye but this means people are not aware of how it really is,” he said. “Some people say there are scenes in our film that are too disturbing to view. I say maybe it’s about time people looked more closely at what’s going on.” Much of the film, shown at the Berlinale, depicts medics crisscrossing battlefields, through trenches and cratered forests, recording close up their hair-raising scrambles in a former British army Snatch vehicle or on foot, to save wounded soldiers while trying not to get hit themselves by the enemy shells raining down around them.
Medics enjoy rare moments of companionship and love with friends and family in bucolic settings, by a lakeside and at a summer banquet in a field in western Ukraine where they celebrate the baptism of one of their sons. In one scene, a hairdresser refuses payment for a cut, telling the medic: “When you come back, we’ll drink to peace.”
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