As It Was (2023)
Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year after the start of the war in Ukraine. Lera does not feel well in Berlin and makes an impulsive decision to go to Kyiv, for the first time during the war. On the way to Kyiv, she learns that her family is not in Kyiv, and will come only the next day. Therefore, she meets her friend Kyryl, with whom she spends the day, as she used to before the war. In the morning, Lera meets her mother and sister, and finally feels at home. But she still doubts whether she will stay in Kyiv or go back to Berlin.
Directors: Anastasia Solonevych, Damian Kocur.
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Valeria Berezovska as Lera |
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Kyrylo Zemlyanyi as Kyrylo |
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Olena Korohod as |
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Sofia Berezovska as |
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Damian Kocur as |
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Dmitri Davydov as |
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Marianna Luka as |
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Sofiia Yelisieieva as |
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Nikyta Melnik as |
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Sergii Shakun as |
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Kateryna Kovalyova as |
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Iryna Abramova as |
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Nataliia Savina as |
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Evgheniy Litvinyk as |
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Oleksandra Tkachenko as |
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Timur Belakov as |
| Directing | Anastasia Solonevych | Director |
| Directing | Damian Kocur | Director |
| Camera | Damian Kocur | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Damian Kocur | Editor |
| Writing | Anastasia Solonevych | Writer |
| Writing | Damian Kocur | Writer |
| Production | Anastasia Solonevych | Casting |
| Editing | Kamil Komorek | Digital Intermediate |
| Sound | Tadeusz Chudy | Sound |
| Production | Piotr Steczek | Producer |
| Production | Mikołaj Lizut | Co-Producer |
| Production | Alina Shapran | Producer's Assistant |
| Production | Zuzanna Wołowiec | Producer's Assistant |