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Los Angeles Times: War in Ukraine reflects deceit, division and corruption in black comedy ‘Donbass’

Published Nov. 20, 2020 at 7:18 am

Movie Director Sergiy Loznitsa speaks with journalists about his new film "Donbass" during the 9th Odesa International Film Festival in Odesa, on July 16.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

There’s no other antiwar film quite like “Donbass,” Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s brutally matter-of-fact, cynically comic string of vignettes depicting social destabilization in the titular war-ravaged region of eastern Ukraine.