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‘War how it truly is’: Ukrainian director turns accidental footage into a film
Oleh Sentsov’s film Real is 90 minutes of frontline action captured when he didn’t realise his camera was on
In the new film by the Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov, soldiers pinned down in a trench try to organise the evacuation of a group of fellow fighters who are stuck and wounded in a frontline position. “I was about to delete everything when I found this and I realised I had a very interesting imprint of that battle and of war how it truly is – ugly, incomprehensible, twisted and stupid,” he said in an interview with the Guardian, conducted by video while he was on home leave. Photograph: FacebookSentsov conceded that a year ago there was much more optimism in the air about the possibility of a full Ukrainian victory that would involve taking back Crimea, whereas now people understood it would not be quick.
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