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‘Klitschko: More Than a Fight’ Director Kevin Macdonald on Capturing Ukraine’s Heavyweight Boxing Champion Turned Wartime Mayor — and His Beef With Zelenskyy
'Klitschko: More Than a Fight’ director Kevin Macdonald on capturing Ukraine’s boxing champion turned wartime mayor — and his beef with Zelenskyy.
But unlike Macdonald’s other documentaries, “More Than a Fight” follows its subject in the present day and in an entirely different role, as mayor of Kyiv, the capital city at the epicenter of the deadly ongoing war with Russia. Klitschko is seen visiting destroyed homes, giving medals to the families of fallen soldiers, inspecting bomb shelters and, in a perhaps surprising move for most viewers, fending off attacks from his own president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Speaking to Variety before its world premiere in Sheffield, Macdonald explains why he thinks Klitschko managed to become one of very few boxers to have successfully enter politics, why he might threaten Zelenskyy and whatever happened to the espionage thriller the director was going to make with Paul Mescal.
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