A feature film about Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be shot in Hollywood
The film will be produced by Oleksandr Rodnyansky and directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytsky (The Tribe)
The Hollywood company Anonymous Content will make a feature film about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It will be produced by Kyiv-born Oleksandr Rodnyansky.
According to him, Anonymous Content came up with the idea to shoot the film after reading an article by Peter Pomerantsev, a well-known international expert on Russian propaganda, entitled "We Can Only Be Enemies", which was published in The Atlantic magazine in the first months of Russia's full-scale aggression.
Based on the "testimonies of civilians", the article described "one of the many episodes of the Russian occupation of Ukrainian villages", Oleksandr Rodnyansky wrote on his Instagram page.
Rodnyansky invited Myroslav Slaboshpytsky, a Kyivan whose film Tribe caused a sensation at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2014, to direct the project. Slaboshpytsky has already prepared a script for the film, titled Occupation.
"Every time I read it, I feel uncomfortable. Because it is absolutely realistic. There are no cardboard heroes and villains in it, but only a scary story about ordinary people who found themselves in the worst possible circumstances – the military. And about what happens to people who gain power over others," Rodnyansky writes about the script.
He also added that the famous French distributor and producer Vincent Maraval will join the project.
Rodnyansky's Instagram post is accompanied by a photo of civilians hiding under a destroyed bridge in Irpin.
Filming is due to begin in autumn 2024 in Poland, Deadline reports.
Ukrainian and Russian TV and film producer Alexander Rodnyansky is a multiple winner of the Cannes Film Festival, an Oscar nominee and a member of the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, winner of the Golden Globe and the French national film award César.
According to Variety, he is one of the 500 most influential people in the global film industry.
In the first days of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, Rodnyansky publicly opposed Russian aggression, announced the closure or freezing of all his Russian projects and the cancellation of the largest Russian film festival Kinotavr, of which he was a producer and president.
In March 2022, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu demanded that Rodnyansky be removed from Russia's "cultural agenda". In October of the same year, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared Rodnyansky a "foreign agent", and in May 2023, the Basmanny Court of Moscow issued a warrant for the producer's arrest in absentia in a criminal case on spreading "fakes" about the Russian armed forces.
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