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Ukrainian Smash ‘Mavka’ Live-Action Film in the Works: ‘Animated Feature Was Just the Start’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The team behind Ukrainian animated smash ‘Mavka. The Forest Song’ announces live-action film, expands the universe.
While it’s “just one big challenge” to film in war-torn Ukraine at the moment, local filmmakers have learnt how to adapt, observed Iryna Kostyuk, who will produce alongside Eliseeva. “Originally depicted as the souls of drowned young women, with their bare spines visible through thin white dresses, Mavkas were vengeful and dangerous creatures. In “The Dam,” female soldier known as Mara – after a goddess presiding over the world of the dead – fights an even greater evil: Soviet zombies, left sealed in a bunker after the Cold War.
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