The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Ukraine – Russia during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
KLONDIKE MOVIE SYNOPSIS
July 2014. Expectant parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, disputed territory in the early days of the Donbas war. Their nervous anticipation of their first child’s birth is violently disrupted as the vicinal crash of flight MH17 elevates the forbidding tension enveloping their village. The looming wreckage of the downed airliner and an incoming parade of mourners emphasize the surreal trauma of the moment.
As Tolik’s separatist friends expect him to join their efforts, Irka’s brother is enraged by suspicions that the couple has betrayed Ukraine. Irka refuses to be evacuated even as the village gets captured by armed forces, and she tries to make peace between her husband and brother by asking them to repair their bombed house.
DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITER
PRODUCER(S)
MARYNA ER GORBACH
DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
After studying in Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema & Television University (Ukraine), she graduated from Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing (Poland).
Since 2017 Maryna ER Gorbach has been a member of the European Film Academy .
FILMS
The Klondike (2022)
Omar and Us (2019)
Love Me (2013)
Black Dogs Barking (2009)
MEHMET BAHADIR ER
PRODUCER
Mehmet Bahadir ER graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul).
His films achieved significant success both at national and international festivals.
He has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2017.
He continues to work as a producer and director in his projects, International co-productions, TV series, and commercials.
SVIATOSLAV BULAKOVSKYI
PRODUCER & CINEMATOGRAPHER
Graduated from Karpenko-КаryiКyiv State University of Cinema and TV Cinematography (Ukraine), after working as a cinematographer in more than 30 films and TV series ( 3 of these films which were directed by Maryna Er Gorbach) He founded Kedr Film Company to make independent films.
CAST
IRKA
OXANA CHERKASHYNA
TOLIK
SERGIY SHADRIN
YARYK
OLEG SCHERBINA
SANYA
OLEG SHEVCHUK
MERCENARY COMMANDER
ARTUR ARAMYAN
CHIEF
EVGENIJ EFREMOV
KEY CREW
D.O.P
SVIATOSLAV BULAKOVSKYI
PRODUCTION DESIGN CONSULTANT
MARKETA KORINKOVA-TAPLIN
SOUND DESIGNER
SRDJAN KURPJEL
COMPOSER
ZVIAD MGEBRY
COUNTRY
UKRAINE (KEDR FILM) , TURKEY (PROTIM V.P)
LANGUAGE
UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, CHECHEN, DUTCH
FILMING LOCATION
UKRAINE
GENRE
ANTI- WAR, DRAMA
YEAR
2022
DURATION
100”
COLOR
COLOR
SCREENING FORMAT
DCP 4K / 2K
“An exhilarating piece of cinema, meticulously framed, exquisitely blocked, and beautifully performed, this is a film about the choices we make as the world is torn apart.”
Juror Andrew Haigh
Sundance Film Festival 2022
“Another reason why Klondike triumphs is that despite what the plot about people with different opinions working together might suggest, it never shies away from its politics and how barbaric war is.”
Walter Neto
International Cinephile Society
Sanfic: Ukraine Drama ‘Klondike’ Snags Top Honors
After its debut at Sundance in January, where it earned the World Cinema Dramatic Competition award for directing, Ukrainian wartime drama “Klondike” nabbed top honors for best international film at the Chile’s 18th Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic).
“Er Gorbach’s film remains a tough sell, however, with its relentlessly downbeat worldview only sporadically tempered by quietly mordant humor, stray instances of domestic tenderness and the considerable beauty of cinematographer Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi’s deep, desolate widescreen compositions.”
Guy Lodge
Variety.com
“The overall aftertaste is suitably somber, though, and Klondike stands as one of the stronger dramatizations of this crucial moment in recent history.”
David Katz
The Film Stage
Women fly flag for Ukraine’s ‘Klondike’ in Sarajevo as fellow crew fight in war
Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach is presenting her film Klondike at Sarajevo Film Festival alongside women who worked on the film, while several men from the production are fighting in the country’s defence forces against the Russian invasion.
Sanfic: Ukraine Drama ‘Klondike’ Snags Top Honors
After its debut at Sundance in January, where it earned the World Cinema Dramatic Competition award for directing, Ukrainian wartime drama “Klondike” nabbed top honors for best international film at the Chile’s 18th Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic).
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