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THE TRAITOR

ZRADNYK

By Mark HAMMOND

ARTBOX - as PROD

Historical - Completed 2017

1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's iconoclastic star director, depicting the events of Ukraine 1920s 'civil war'.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Historical, Drama
- Countries
- UKRAINE, LITHUANIA
- Languages
- UKRANIAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Mark HAMMOND
- Writer(s)
- Zaza BUADZE, Mark GRES, Mark HAMMOND, Andriy KOKOTUHA, Lesya VOLOSHINA
- Cast
- Darya ASTAFIEVA, Timofey TRIBUNTSEV, Volodymyr YAMNENKO, Andrejs ZAGARS
- Producer(s)
- Volodymyr FILIPPOV, Alla OVSYANNIKOVA, Andriy SUYARKO
- Synopsis
- 1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's iconoclastic star director, depicting the events of Ukraine 1920s 'civil war'. The re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, a recent graduate of the Moscow Film Institute. However, as her work progress, she comes to understand that despite the risks she must betray the Party to protect the director's vision, and safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet Occupation.