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Toronto Premiere ‘U Are the Universe’ Offers Star-Crossed Love in Interstellar Ukrainian Sci-Fi Dramedy, Drops Teaser (EXCLUSIVE)
The feature debut of writer-director Pavlo Ostrikov is a cosmic romantic dramedy about the only survivors of a cataclysm that destroys the planet.
Not long after he’s canned from his job as an intergalactic trucker for the biggest nuclear waste disposal company in Eastern Europe, Ukrainian Everyman Andriy Melnyk is blinded by a flash of light as his clunky cargo ship hurtles across the galaxy. Ostrikov’s offbeat debut is a tale of love and loneliness that kicks into motion when Andriy, played by Volodymyr Kravchuk, receives a mysterious message from a Frenchwoman whose abandoned space station is slowly falling toward the rings of Saturn. It’s hard to imagine a small canvas for a story of gods and men, but Ostrikov admits, “‘U Are the Universe’ was so difficult to make with CGI with our budget.” Working with a Ukrainian VFX team, the film was produced on a budget well shy of $1 million.
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