- year : 2018
- country : Russia
- timing : 60:00'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Valeriy Timoschenko
written by Valeriy Timoschenko
produced by Dmitriy Yakunin, Philipp Abryutin, Valeriy Timoshchenko, Olga Filonova
DoPs Valeriy Timoshchenko, Yakov Umantsev, Viktor Lychagin, Vladislav Bagrintsev, Evgeniy Petrov
music by Andrey Goncharov
editor Natalia Shuvalova
production company: Producer Center "Youth Initiatives"
The film is about the Luhansk militiamen whose fates are retraced in the most crucial period of the war, having been gone in Donbas region for 4 years already.
The summer of 2014, the moment of truth, the death of Russian journalists, the hundreds of thousands refugees. The population of Luhansk is 700 thousand people, and no more than 1000 fighters defend it these days. Only later Russia would start helping the city, giving humanitarian aid and sending volunteers, but that moment everything depended on former collective farmers, mine workers, teachers and taxi drivers who took up arms, made their own unique military ways, became militia members, artillerists, platoon and group commanders and, by some miracle, defended their city. The authors of the film were shooting nearby their characters, often under the gun, but also gave cameras to the militiamen and taught them how to shoot. This film is about the Luhansk militiamen, about the thousands of brave people who were unconsciously writing the history.
Open Documentary Film Festival " Russia" (2018, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
International Charity Film Festival "Radiant Angel" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
International Film and TV-program Festival "Radonezh", Laureate Diploma. Special Jury Prize (2018, Russia, Moscow)
International Film Forum "Zolotoy Vityaz", Prize by Alexander Sidelnikov for the Best Director (2019, Russia, Sevastopol)
National TV Film Forum “Mother Trails” (2019, Russia, Moscow)
International festival of military-patriotic film "Volokolamsk border" (2019, Russia, Volokamsk)
Russian Documentary Film Festival "Salt of the Earth" (2019, Russia, Samara)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Valeriy Timoschenko was born on 21.01.1959 in Krasnodar (Russia). In 1981 graduated from The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) as a screenwriter. Works as a screenwriter and documentary director.
In 1989 - the commander of a rescue team during the earthquake in Armenia. Worked during military conflicts in Karabakh, Abkhazia, Chechnya, South Ossetia as a DoP and director. At the moment he is a General Director of the Krasnodar Film Studio n.a. N. Minervin. Member of the Board of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2018 - "A Lugansk Story", documentary
2015 - "The Battle for the Celestial Empire", documentary
2015 - "Border: Russia, which is", documentary
2015 - "The Greatest Air Battle in World History", documentary
2015 - "Do not shoot the operator!", Documentary
2014 - "Pure victory: the battle for Elbrus", documentary
2014 - "Bora, History of the Wind", documentary
2014 - "Pure victory, the Battle for Sevastopol", documentary
2013 - "Peasant History", documentary
2013 - "Pure victory, assault of Novorossiysk", documentary
2012 - "Two Oceans", documentary
2012 - "Be sober!" , documentary
2011 - "George", documentary
2009 - "Free World, Gryphas of the Caucasus", documentary
2008 - "Russian reserve", documentary
2007 - "Two Combat Battalions", documentary
2006 - "Salute, Amigo", documentary
2003 - "Living Sea", documentary
2002 - "Lonely Paradise", documentary
2002 - "Prosecution witness", documentary
1996 - "Slavonic Dance", documentary
1995 - "The war is over", documentary
1994 - "The Old Master", documentary
