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  • 2019
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 2 m
  • 2019
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 2 m

Summary In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain...

Directed By: Sergey Loznitsa

Written By: Sergey Loznitsa

  • 2019
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 2 m
  • 2019
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 2 m

Donbass

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
78
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain...

Directed By: Sergey Loznitsa

Written By: Sergey Loznitsa

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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100
Nov 22, 2020
Filmed by the great Romanian cinematographer and frequent Loznitsa collaborator Oleg Mutu in long, patient takes that intensify each sequence’s brittle contrasts, Donbass coalesces into an unflinching dispatch from a state of embattlement both region-specific and 21st century-pervasive.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
83
Nov 24, 2020
The Belarus-born Loznitsa, now a Ukrainian citizen, is not a follower of the “brevity is the soul of wit” school of dark humour. Each vignette is almost too long to earn that descriptor, almost as if he doesn’t want to let go of a scene until the viewer is utterly uncomfortable. But that churn builds on itself, taking us by the last act to a dark and cynical place.
By Jim Slotek FULL REVIEW
80
May 18, 2018
Corruption and humiliation are the guiding forces of Donbass, resulting in a scathing portrait of a society where human interaction has descended to a level of barbarity more in keeping with late antiquity than the so-called contemporary civilized world.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 4, 2022
The film’s collisions between the grave and the comic are crucial to its vision of a society cracking under the weight of its own inconsistencies.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
75
May 19, 2018
In strict terms of craft, Donbass is an impressive achievement, but its heavy-handedness nevertheless feels inordinate.
By Giovanni Marchini Camia FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 8, 2022
It feels as though [Loznitsa] has wrangled an entire uprising’s personality into bite-sized pieces.
By Lena Wilson FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 8, 2022
Pathological behavior seems to be the main subject of the bitter Ukrainian satire Donbass, an unpleasant, but as-advertised slice of life drama set in the title region, an embattled territory in Eastern Ukraine.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Arthouse Traffic, Atoms & Void, Graniet Film BV, JBA Production, Ma.ja.de. Fiction, Ukrainian State Film Agency, Wild at Art
Release Date Jan 11, 2019
Duration 2 h 2 m
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Website http://inter.pyramidefilms.com/pyramidefilms-international-catalogue/donbass.html
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Awards

Ukrainian Film Academy Awards
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Ukrainian Film Critics Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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