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If it\u2019s true, as General William Tecumseh Sherman reputedly observed during America\u2019s Civil War, that \u201cwar is hell,\u201d according to Kyiv-born Maryna Er Gorbach\u2019s Klondike<\/em>, the \u201chottest seat in hell\u201d (to paraphrase Dante) seems reserved for those ensnared in the civil war in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region. One of the grimmest films I\u2019ve ever seen, Klondike<\/em> is so bleak in its realistic depiction of warfare that it almost makes two antiwar classics that won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars \u2013 Lewis Milestone\u2019s1930 All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em> and Oliver Stone\u2019s 1986 Platoon<\/em> \u2013 look like musical comedies in comparison.<\/p>\n As Oksana Cherkashyna, who stars as Irka, told the audience after a SEEfest screening at the Lumiere Cinema in Beverly Hills, Klondike<\/em> dramatizes actual events that took place when the war between Russia and Ukraine really \u201cstarted eight years ago\u201d in 2014, with armed conflict in the Donbas, while what we\u2019re witnessing now is \u201ca full-scale invasion\u201d by the Russian Federation of Ukraine.<\/p>\n \t\t More<\/a><\/p>\n The post Ukrainian Actress Presents Antiwar Cinematic Stunner at SEEfest<\/a> appeared first on CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in here<\/a> or subscribe here<\/a>.
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