Gogol Bordello, the punk group led by Kyiv-born singer Eugene Hütz, played a secret show for an audience of Ukrainian soldiers last week.
Vice reports that the unannounced concert took place at an undisclosed location near the frontlines of the Russian invasion. About 50 soldiers witnessed the gig, including an outfit of elite special forces troops wearing green berets.
Exclusive: We watched @GogolBordello play a secret gig in Ukraine.
Vice World News was in attendance as the international punks and their Ukrainian-born frontman Eugene Hütz performed an exclusive set for soldiers at an undisclosed location.
Vice reports that the unannounced concert took place at an undisclosed location near the frontlines of the Russian invasion. About 50 soldiers witnessed the gig, including an outfit of elite special forces troops wearing green berets.
Exclusive: We watched @GogolBordello play a secret gig in Ukraine.
Vice World News was in attendance as the international punks and their Ukrainian-born frontman Eugene Hütz performed an exclusive set for soldiers at an undisclosed location.
- 8/24/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The Wild Fields Photo: Courtesy of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival his was the strongest line-up of films for me of any day so far at the festival.
The Wild Fields (Dike Pole)
"The road back home is a one-way trip," 30-year-old Herman Korolyov (Oleg Moskalenko) is told as he returns from Karkhiv - where he works as an "independent expert" - to the rural part of Donbass where he grew up. Herman intends to stay only one night, sorting out the affairs of his brother's petrol station now that his sibling has unexpectedly left the country - but with Russian gangsters intending either to buy or violently seize the property from him, Herman's indecision gradually turns into a determination to stay on and to defend what is rightfully his, whatever the cost.
Serhiy Zhadan's Voroshilovgrad was presciently published in 2010, four years before the outbreak of the war in...
The Wild Fields (Dike Pole)
"The road back home is a one-way trip," 30-year-old Herman Korolyov (Oleg Moskalenko) is told as he returns from Karkhiv - where he works as an "independent expert" - to the rural part of Donbass where he grew up. Herman intends to stay only one night, sorting out the affairs of his brother's petrol station now that his sibling has unexpectedly left the country - but with Russian gangsters intending either to buy or violently seize the property from him, Herman's indecision gradually turns into a determination to stay on and to defend what is rightfully his, whatever the cost.
Serhiy Zhadan's Voroshilovgrad was presciently published in 2010, four years before the outbreak of the war in...
- 11/29/2018
- by Anton Bitel
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Festival’s industry strand crowns work-in-progress winners from Macedonia and Ukraine.
The Grand Prix of FilmFestival Cottbus (8-13 November) went to Russia for the fourth time in the last six years, with filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky taking the top award for his second feature Zoology after also winning top honours for his debut Corrections Class in 2014.
The other previous winners from Russia had been Angelina Nikonova in 2011 with Twilight Portrait and Alexander Veledinsky in 2013 with The Geographer Who Drank His Globe Away.
Moreover, Tverdovsky is the third film-maker to win Cottbus’s top prize twice in the festival’s 26-year history following Slovakia’s Martin Sulik (1993: Everything I Like and 1995: The Garden) and Serbia’s Oleg Novkovic (2006: Tomorrow Morning and 2010: White White World).
The international jury, which included veteran Israeli producer Marek Rosenbaum and Serbian actress-director Mirjana Karanovic, described Zoology as ¨an original and emotional story about loneliness, love, hope and...
The Grand Prix of FilmFestival Cottbus (8-13 November) went to Russia for the fourth time in the last six years, with filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky taking the top award for his second feature Zoology after also winning top honours for his debut Corrections Class in 2014.
The other previous winners from Russia had been Angelina Nikonova in 2011 with Twilight Portrait and Alexander Veledinsky in 2013 with The Geographer Who Drank His Globe Away.
Moreover, Tverdovsky is the third film-maker to win Cottbus’s top prize twice in the festival’s 26-year history following Slovakia’s Martin Sulik (1993: Everything I Like and 1995: The Garden) and Serbia’s Oleg Novkovic (2006: Tomorrow Morning and 2010: White White World).
The international jury, which included veteran Israeli producer Marek Rosenbaum and Serbian actress-director Mirjana Karanovic, described Zoology as ¨an original and emotional story about loneliness, love, hope and...
- 11/14/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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