Watch a documentary in English about life in industrial Donetsk with a dust of glamor TONIGHT!
THE OTHER CHELSEA. A STORY FROM DONETSK
Germany, Ukraine 2010
Language: Russian and English with English subtitles
Directed by Jakob Preuss
Preuss, decidedly a talented filmmaker, shows Donetsk as a place where rich and poor share the same passion – football. Miners with their miniscule wages and a handful of oligarchs with millions of dollars – all converge on a stadium.
They sit in different zones but enjoy the same match and cheer for the same club – Shakhtar Donetsk owned by billionaire Rinat Akhmetov. As Shakhtar advances in the European league, it makes millions of impoverished Ukrainians happy because the football team may be their only pride and joy.
“The Other Chelsea” is a very realistic story of an illusion that has more influence than the reality itself. Akhmetov’s successful investments only highlight a widening gap between a dream of a happy life and the stagnation that happens in Donetsk today.
A must-see for everybody who wants to know more about the real Ukraine.
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July 7 at 7 p.m.
