If nothing else, Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach’s first solo-helmed feature Klondike can be credited with uncanny timing. A vivid look at an ordinary farming family in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, who just happen to have a full wall of their home destroyed by an errant missile, its European premiere at the 2022 Berlinale was followed only days later by Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country, which of course continues unabated. It would be one of the last Ukrainian features to conclude production before the war broke out, a prophetic missive from a country that has stunned the world with its resilience in the face of crisis.
Er Gorbach, who’s based in Istanbul and previously co-directed several features with her spouse Mehmet Bahadir Er, reveals herself as a filmmaker able to conjure an imposing sense of scale, and creditably evoke with massive props (and some post-production...
Er Gorbach, who’s based in Istanbul and previously co-directed several features with her spouse Mehmet Bahadir Er, reveals herself as a filmmaker able to conjure an imposing sense of scale, and creditably evoke with massive props (and some post-production...
- 8/3/2023
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
"Did you see who shot down the plane?" Goldwyn Films has revealed an official US trailer for an acclaimed Ukrainian film titled Klondike, from filmmaker Maryna Er Gorbach. This premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival just weeks before Russia attacked Ukraine in the war that started last year. It's actually set in 2014 in another part of Ukraine, called the Donetsk Region, where the Donbas war was already underway. The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia & Ukraine during the start of the Donbas war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they will be at the center of the air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down by Russian forces. This film really stunned me, it's incredible, a powerful story told with such grace with outstanding cinematography. Starring Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin,...
- 6/20/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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By Nov. 18, when a Dutch court found three men, two of them Russian and one Ukrainian, guilty of murder in absentia for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the event had almost vanished from public memory. The court found that on July 17, 2014, a Russian-made missile supplied from Russia and fired by an armed group under Russian control in eastern Ukraine brought down the civilian flight, killing all 298 people on board, including 80 children.
Maryna Er Gorbach hadn’t forgotten. July 17, 2014, was Er Gorbach’s 33rd birthday, and the fateful day when the passenger airline was shot down over the occupied Donbas region is the starting point for her latest film, Klondike, Ukraine’s contender for the 2022 best international feature film Oscar.
“We all remember what happened on Feb. 24, 2022, when Russia started its full-scale war on Ukraine, but who talks about the Malaysian Air catastrophe?” says Er Gorbach.
By Nov. 18, when a Dutch court found three men, two of them Russian and one Ukrainian, guilty of murder in absentia for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the event had almost vanished from public memory. The court found that on July 17, 2014, a Russian-made missile supplied from Russia and fired by an armed group under Russian control in eastern Ukraine brought down the civilian flight, killing all 298 people on board, including 80 children.
Maryna Er Gorbach hadn’t forgotten. July 17, 2014, was Er Gorbach’s 33rd birthday, and the fateful day when the passenger airline was shot down over the occupied Donbas region is the starting point for her latest film, Klondike, Ukraine’s contender for the 2022 best international feature film Oscar.
“We all remember what happened on Feb. 24, 2022, when Russia started its full-scale war on Ukraine, but who talks about the Malaysian Air catastrophe?” says Er Gorbach.
- 12/14/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three men from the film team are fighting in Ukraine’s defence forces.
Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach is presenting her film Klondike at Sarajevo Film Festival alongside women who worked on the film, while several men from the production are fighting in the country’s defence forces against the Russian invasion.
Producer, cinematographer and Gorbach’s creative partner Svyatoslav Bulakovskiy - ‘Slava’ - has been fighting for his country since the early days of the invasion in February; as have actors Oleg Shcherbina and Oleg Shevchuk.
The trio are in different regiments of the Ukrainian forces, and have avoided physical injury.
Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach is presenting her film Klondike at Sarajevo Film Festival alongside women who worked on the film, while several men from the production are fighting in the country’s defence forces against the Russian invasion.
Producer, cinematographer and Gorbach’s creative partner Svyatoslav Bulakovskiy - ‘Slava’ - has been fighting for his country since the early days of the invasion in February; as have actors Oleg Shcherbina and Oleg Shevchuk.
The trio are in different regiments of the Ukrainian forces, and have avoided physical injury.
- 8/19/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Klondike Review Video — Klondike (2021) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by Maryna Er Gorbach, written by Maryna Er Gorbach, and starring Oxana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin, Oleg Shcherbina, Oleg Shevchuk, and Evgeniy Efremov. Crew Zviad Mgebry created the music for the film. Svyatoslav Bulakovskyi crafted the cinematography for the film. Plot Synopsis Klondike‘s plot synopsis: “Armed [...]
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Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Klondike (2022): A Modern Tragedy told Beautifully Blunt that Elicits a Powerful Response...
- 5/3/2022
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Klondike Review — Klondike (2022) Film Review from the 45th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Maryna Er Gorbach, starring Oxana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin, Oleg Shcherbina, and Oleg Shevchuk, and Evgeniy Efremov. Set in July 2014 at the onset of the Donbas war, Klondike opens with [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Klondike: A Staunchly Apolitical Yet Affecting Modern War Film [Sundance 2022]...
- 1/31/2022
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Personal and political turmoil face a serene camera in “Klondike,” a vision of the ongoing war in Donbass war that brooks no compromise in depicting the severe impact of the conflict on the region’s civilians — in particular, the innocent women to whom the film is dedicated. Ukrainian writer-director Maryna Er Gorbach largely assumes the viewpoint of a heavily pregnant farmstead owner as her life and home quite literally fall apart on July 17, 2014, the day a Malaysia Airlines passenger flight was shot down over Donbass, killing nearly 300 people. Irka (Oxana Cherkashyna) is determined to stand her ground even as her fellow villagers flee oncoming armed forces. In Er Gorbach’s potent film, shot in unbroken, unblinking takes that observe obscene violence and destruction with cold candor, Irka’s resistance to warfare is at once fierce and futile.
Winning the directing award in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition — ahead of a...
Winning the directing award in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition — ahead of a...
- 1/29/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Klondike is a funny title for this harrowing, at times absurdist Ukrainian war drama, set as conflict with Russia began to spike in 2014. Referring as it does to the Klondike Gold Rush (the setting for Chaplin’s famous silent comedy), we could expect the resonance of two historical events to overlap, or at least sense a link between the actual subject and the analogy. But any gold in the grey expanse of the febrile Donbas region, where Klondike‘s set, is nary to be found: the landscape seems only dotted with cows and convoys of surface-to-air missiles. Perhaps it’s just a red herring designed to mock the idea of attributing meaning, which is what the shellshocked or aggressive characters in this film are also scrabbling to do, to no avail.
What’s also refreshing about Klondike is how it depicts war in a manner modern filmmakers seem more cautious about now.
What’s also refreshing about Klondike is how it depicts war in a manner modern filmmakers seem more cautious about now.
- 1/24/2022
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
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