LIFE TO THE LIMIT

By Pavlo PELESHOK

UKR.STREAM - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2022

Two film producers of the film "Winter on Fire", active servicemen, are returning to the war in eastern Ukraine after the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles in 2016. Five years later, veterans, from fragments of memories and their own video archive, they will show why the russian-Ukrainian war became...

    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues, True Story
    • Countries
    • UKRAINE
    • Languages
    • UKRANIAN, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 107 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Pavlo PELESHOK
    • Writer(s)
    • Pavlo PELESHOK
    • Producer(s)
    • Pavlo PELESHOK (UKR.STREAM), Yurko IVANYSHYN (UKR.STREAM)
    • Synopsis
    • Two successful film producers with an office in the center of Kyiv after the russian occupation of Crimea in 2014 decide to leave everything and volunteer for the war in eastern Ukraine, to defend the homeland from the russian occupiers.

      After two years of war (2016), the film they started producing on the Maidan, "Winter on Fire" became a nominee for the American Academy Award, the "Oscar".

      Commander releases boys on short-term leave so they can travel to California

      A week after the awards ceremony and elite cocktail parties in Los Angeles, they are returning to the trenches of the russian-Ukrainian war.

      Five years later, veterans, at the cost of losing close friends, "survivor's guilt syndrome", post-traumatic stress disorder, medals for bravery, return to their profession to show from fragments of memories and their own video archive why the russian-Ukrainian war was possible in the 21st century.