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Sergei Loznitsa Drops Trailer for Cannes Premiere ‘The Invasion,’ Talks Stakes of ‘War Between Russia and the Civilized World’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The celebrated documentarian warns that the West isn't doing enough to stop Russian aggression, but insists Ukrainians remain defiant.
“The Invasion” sees Loznitsa returning to Cannes two years after premiering “The Natural History of Destruction,” an archive documentary about the devastation wrought by aerial bombing in World War II. The director is a master chronicler of the past, but his latest was conceived as “a series of urgent, almost real-time dispatches,” he says, capturing episodes from daily life around Ukraine in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion. European leaders have been debating measures to shore up the continent’s defenses in the face of possible Russian aggression; Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk recently warned that Europe is in a “pre-war era” and has a “long way to go” before it will be ready to counter a potential attack by its bellicose eastern neighbor.
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