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Kyiv Theater: An Island of Hope
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 brings back dark memories of 1930s Europe for Ariane Mnouchkine, the 84-year-old theater director and founder of the prestigious Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. Against this backdrop and in solidarity with Ukrainian resistance, Mnouchkine decides to put together a theater workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Twelve days of intensive training bring together hundreds of Ukranian actors — amateurs, students, and professionals from all over the country — to try their hand at Mnouchkine’s unique form of improvisational theater. With little more than a rehearsal room, yellow curtain, and a few costumes, the actors will create their own island of artistic expression.
But what use is art in times of war? This question looms over the documentary as it weaves together scenes from rehearsals and conversations with Ukranians about the reality of Russia’s invasion. We hear from an actress whose husband has been sent to fight on the front lines and see daily alerts for Russian drones encircling Ukraine airspace. In one particularly harrowing scene, we accompany some of the actors as they traverse through city ruins to visit a memorial to victims of the Bucha massacre.
Amidst the shadow of violence and loss, the theater troupe becomes a rare site of freedom and creative experimentation, allowing the actors to express feelings of tenderness, anger, joy, and love. Resisting both defeatism and naïve optimism, Kyiv Theater: An Island of Hope is an essential and timely exploration of what it means to create art in times of war.
“Presents an excellent overview of one type of process-based theatre and highlights the potential for theatre to serve as a safe space for participants during turbulent times.” —Educational Media Reviews Online
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Main credits
Bellugi Vannuccini, Duccio (filmmaker)
Roblin, Félicie (film producer)
Mnouchkine, Ariane (on-screen participant)
Other credits
Cinematography, Thomas Briat, Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini; editing, Pierre Haberer; music, Éric Daniel, Arnaud de Boisefleury, Carlos Bernardo.
Distributor subjects
Theater; Art; Russia; Ukraine; France; French CultureKeywords
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[lively music]
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♪ We\'ll become boring ♪
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♪ Grumpy or mad ♪
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♪ Many days from now ♪
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♪ Will you still have the courage to work with us ♪
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♪ And direct some more plays for us ♪
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♪ If we can\'t get to rehearsals on time ♪
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♪ Will you lock the door ♪
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♪ Will you still need us, will you still teach us ♪
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♪ When you\'re 84 ♪
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♪ Will you still need us ♪
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♪ Will you still need us ♪
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♪ When you\'re 84 ♪
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[all clapping and cheering]
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[Ariane speaking foreign language]
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[all chattering]
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[all chattering]
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[all laughing]
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[Alex speaking foreign language]
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[Ariane laughing]
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[engine rumbling]
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There\'s music and very cool guys go to their...
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And everything [vocalizing].
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But it is not the war.
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The war it is, it is too much a little and bigger...
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It\'s all of this together.
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War it\'s not, not only about...
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[all chattering]
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Pain.
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It is mixed.
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And the thoughts, it\'s very strange.
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How I can laugh now
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when my husband on the war.
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How I can smiling and be happy?
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and to my grandmother
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that she is [speaking foreign language].
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She\'s sick.
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And I said \"Okay, mom, goodbye\".
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And, sorry.
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[clearing throat] Sorry.
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And we made a picture all of us
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because we didn\'t know maybe to be the last one.
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Because my mother should stay with my grandmother,
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because she\'s sick, she can\'t walk.
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So we couldn\'t take her with us.
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And because, in our car we have just five places.
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Me, my husband, and the three of my four children.
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This is the war.
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Sorry.
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Oh my god.
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the front.
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Now they have like bombings from plane.
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I know I should be there but I should be with them.
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It\'s difficult for me.
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about if the culture is, the theater all of this,
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needs when the war goes?
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And theater help people to feel again.
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To feel alive.
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It\'s very important in this kind of situation.
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not the lights only one guitarist and all these actors.
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It was performing improvisation and much people come
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to us and I asked \"why you\'re here?\"
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And they say, \"Because we want to feel alive.\"
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After this performance one of the viewer hold me
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and told me \"Thank you.
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I feel myself [speaking foreign language].
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\"Thank you...\"
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And cry and cry and cry.
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And it was, \"Oh my god, we should do theater here.\"
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[engine rumbling]
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[bells tolling]
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Stop!
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[Michel speaking foreign language]
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[Micha speaking foreign language]
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[Michel speaking foreign language]
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[all laughing and clapping]
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[all laughing]
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I just, how I started to be just this character
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like just play this character yes.
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It\'s from-
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Stanislavski is you feel and then do.
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It\'s something another.
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And you don\'t even understand that you already feel.
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[all applauding]
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How high flies a drone?
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It\'s like that, like a moto.
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Really it\'s like that.
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So you can see here the map.
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Where is alert.
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And that\'s it.
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Just like this?
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They say that the Shahed is already in Kyiv.
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Normally now we should go get locked in shelter.
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We will go to the shelter.
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Sorry, sorry. [speaking foreign language]
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[gentle orchestral music]
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[fire whooshing]
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[all laughing]
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[all chattering]
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[all chattering]
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that we can be strong as we said we are strong,
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we are Ukrainian, it\'s not.
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Honestly it\'s not.
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We\'re very tired.
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So we hope that this moment can change our lives for better.
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Thank you so much.
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[both screaming]
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[birds chirping]
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[Catherine speaking foreign language]
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[Catherine speaking foreign language]
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A hero is a hero because he\'s afraid.
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There is some fear and he gets over the fear
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and so he gets the courage and he become the hero.
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Otherwise he\'s a superman.
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You are \"I killed someone.\"
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It can be an inner conflict.
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Because the conflict is not only an outside conflict.
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272
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273
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274
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Thank you.
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276
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277
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[all chattering]
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279
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See you guys on the stage.
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You are big, but you are, this is theater
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with costumes but this is life.
282
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The life, but life it\'s not dead.
283
00:29:25.380 --> 00:29:26.403
So it\'s me.
284
00:29:28.383 --> 00:29:30.210
285
00:29:30.210 --> 00:29:32.749
When did you decide to be an actor?
286
00:29:32.749 --> 00:29:33.795
When was it?
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288
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before join the Theatre du Soleil in Kaboul.
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290
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291
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292
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And the first day and second day I saw them,
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exactly what we are doing here.
294
00:29:50.153 --> 00:29:54.093
I just fall in love and that was it.
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00:29:54.093 --> 00:29:56.541
I told myself that I want to do it.
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00:29:56.541 --> 00:29:58.687
After the workshop with Maurice,
297
00:29:58.687 --> 00:30:01.747
that was the first theater performance
298
00:30:01.747 --> 00:30:03.867
that we had it was \"Romeo and Juliet\".
299
00:30:06.810 --> 00:30:08.752
And I was Romeo!
300
00:30:08.752 --> 00:30:11.885
[all laughing]
301
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302
00:30:14.730 --> 00:30:16.338
It was-
303
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304
00:30:19.523 --> 00:30:23.164
It was in Pondichéry, which is on the east cost of India.
305
00:30:23.164 --> 00:30:24.933
It\'s a very very small town.
306
00:30:25.914 --> 00:30:30.700
That\'s when my first meeting of love affair happened
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in theatre du Soleil and it was so beautiful
308
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that I packed my bags and I\'m here
309
00:30:37.560 --> 00:30:40.670
at this table right now so, voila.
310
00:30:42.803 --> 00:30:45.024
[all chattering]
311
00:30:45.024 --> 00:30:45.857
312
00:30:45.857 --> 00:30:48.581
She\'s also actress of our theater
313
00:30:48.581 --> 00:30:52.674
and she is a volunteer for armed forces.
314
00:30:52.674 --> 00:30:54.732
[all chattering]
315
00:30:54.732 --> 00:30:57.301
[Julia speaking foreign language]
316
00:30:57.301 --> 00:31:00.051
[all chattering]
317
00:31:01.688 --> 00:31:03.688
318
00:31:04.760 --> 00:31:07.292
[all chattering]
319
00:31:07.292 --> 00:31:11.781
[person speaking foreign language]
320
00:31:11.781 --> 00:31:14.499
[all chattering]
321
00:31:14.499 --> 00:31:17.082
[lively music]
322
00:31:18.203 --> 00:31:20.953
[Ariane sighing]
323
00:31:23.913 --> 00:31:28.163
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
324
00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:34.940
325
00:32:07.170 --> 00:32:10.198
[Tomas speaking foreign language]
326
00:32:10.198 --> 00:32:12.296
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
327
00:32:12.296 --> 00:32:14.688
[Tomas speaking foreign language]
328
00:32:14.688 --> 00:32:18.938
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
329
00:32:32.615 --> 00:32:34.466
[actor speaking foreign language]
330
00:32:34.466 --> 00:32:38.716
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
331
00:33:20.785 --> 00:33:22.118
[lively music]
332
00:33:22.118 --> 00:33:27.118
[vocalist singing in foreign language]
333
00:33:27.316 --> 00:33:31.566
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
334
00:33:55.849 --> 00:33:58.599
[static hissing]
335
00:34:00.911 --> 00:34:02.388
[actor speaking foreign language]
336
00:34:02.388 --> 00:34:06.055
[dramatic orchestral music]
337
00:34:30.664 --> 00:34:35.164
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
338
00:34:53.299 --> 00:34:57.466
[actor speaking foreign language]
339
00:35:23.279 --> 00:35:26.029
[all chattering]
340
00:35:29.124 --> 00:35:33.718
[actor speaking foreign language]
341
00:35:33.718 --> 00:35:37.885
[actor speaking foreign language]
342
00:35:38.985 --> 00:35:43.314
[actor speaking foreign language]
343
00:35:43.314 --> 00:35:47.481
[actor speaking foreign language]
344
00:35:48.578 --> 00:35:52.245
[dramatic orchestral music]
345
00:36:12.145 --> 00:36:16.395
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
346
00:36:37.783 --> 00:36:42.283
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
347
00:36:59.530 --> 00:37:04.030
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
348
00:37:18.551 --> 00:37:22.718
[actor speaking foreign language]
349
00:38:07.314 --> 00:38:10.147
[engine rumbling]
350
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351
00:38:14.190 --> 00:38:18.330
he\'s also a member of the company then?
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353
00:38:19.745 --> 00:38:24.745
354
00:38:27.707 --> 00:38:30.333
355
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356
00:38:34.170 --> 00:38:39.170
But now he don\'t know what\'s he want to do
357
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:44.360
and everything change in his head, his mind.
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His mind, yes.
359
00:38:46.620 --> 00:38:51.620
Much of people form the artist or nearly profession
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00:38:53.790 --> 00:38:57.690
go to the war, zero.
361
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And now something have changed inside.
362
00:39:02.460 --> 00:39:04.770
And men send, I don\'t know for women,
363
00:39:04.770 --> 00:39:07.277
but men who were there [speaking foreign language].
364
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365
00:39:10.222 --> 00:39:11.472
366
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Return.
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He don\'t know how to be here.
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00:39:18.270 --> 00:39:23.270
Because there he know what to do.
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00:39:23.310 --> 00:39:24.873
And here-
370
00:39:26.670 --> 00:39:29.280
371
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:30.603
372
00:39:32.554 --> 00:39:35.304
[all chattering]
373
00:39:40.958 --> 00:39:45.958
374
00:39:47.941 --> 00:39:50.691
[all chattering]
375
00:39:53.578 --> 00:39:58.036
[person speaking foreign language]
376
00:39:58.036 --> 00:40:02.203
[all singing in foreign language]
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00:40:12.698 --> 00:40:14.773
378
00:40:14.773 --> 00:40:18.049
And then the spring will come to me.
379
00:40:18.049 --> 00:40:19.130
380
00:40:19.130 --> 00:40:21.391
[all laughing]
381
00:40:21.391 --> 00:40:23.974
[all grunting]
382
00:40:27.410 --> 00:40:29.759
383
00:40:29.759 --> 00:40:31.031
[all laughing]
384
00:40:31.031 --> 00:40:32.704
385
00:40:32.704 --> 00:40:37.378
this is a nice peaceful game in a peaceful country.
386
00:40:37.378 --> 00:40:39.155
[all chattering]
387
00:40:39.155 --> 00:40:40.841
[gentle orchestral music]
388
00:40:40.841 --> 00:40:43.424
[bell ringing]
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00:40:47.779 --> 00:40:49.783
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
390
00:40:49.783 --> 00:40:53.283
[gentle orchestral music]
391
00:41:25.790 --> 00:41:28.813
[gun firing]
392
00:41:28.813 --> 00:41:31.288
[Seear speaking foreign language]
393
00:41:31.288 --> 00:41:35.538
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
394
00:41:45.670 --> 00:41:49.837
[actor speaking foreign language]
395
00:41:54.613 --> 00:41:58.863
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
396
00:42:04.514 --> 00:42:08.786
[Seear speaking foreign language]
397
00:42:08.786 --> 00:42:12.953
[actor speaking foreign language]
398
00:42:17.114 --> 00:42:21.364
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
399
00:42:22.818 --> 00:42:24.046
[Seear speaking foreign language]
400
00:42:24.046 --> 00:42:26.271
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
401
00:42:26.271 --> 00:42:30.438
[actor speaking foreign language]
402
00:42:32.526 --> 00:42:34.021
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
403
00:42:34.021 --> 00:42:35.763
[actor speaking foreign language]
404
00:42:35.763 --> 00:42:37.744
[actor speaking foreign language]
405
00:42:37.744 --> 00:42:39.327
[all laughing]
406
00:42:39.327 --> 00:42:43.577
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
407
00:42:56.242 --> 00:43:01.210
[actor speaking foreign language]
408
00:43:01.210 --> 00:43:04.821
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
409
00:43:04.821 --> 00:43:08.321
[gentle orchestral music]
410
00:43:38.175 --> 00:43:40.592
[gun firing]
411
00:43:46.152 --> 00:43:47.627
[actor speaking foreign language]
412
00:43:47.627 --> 00:43:51.017
[all chattering]
413
00:43:51.017 --> 00:43:55.184
[all singing in foreign language]
414
00:44:04.700 --> 00:44:08.867
415
00:44:12.870 --> 00:44:16.253
Because people wanted to join the European Union
416
00:44:16.253 --> 00:44:19.589
and our president wants to go to Russia.
417
00:44:19.589 --> 00:44:21.667
And actually he he went to Russia
418
00:44:21.667 --> 00:44:25.752
and now we are all in European...
419
00:44:25.752 --> 00:44:29.919
[all singing in foreign language]
420
00:44:31.116 --> 00:44:35.366
[person speaking foreign language]
421
00:44:38.603 --> 00:44:42.770
[actor speaking foreign language]
422
00:44:56.690 --> 00:44:59.472
[all chattering]
423
00:44:59.472 --> 00:45:01.786
[person speaking foreign language]
424
00:45:01.786 --> 00:45:05.953
[actor speaking foreign language]
425
00:45:07.073 --> 00:45:11.240
[actor speaking foreign language]
426
00:45:24.542 --> 00:45:28.709
[actor speaking foreign language]
427
00:45:42.210 --> 00:45:46.877
[interviewer speaking foreign language]
428
00:45:50.641 --> 00:45:54.783
[actor speaking foreign language]
429
00:45:54.783 --> 00:45:58.950
[actor speaking foreign language]
430
00:46:30.368 --> 00:46:34.701
[person speaking foreign language]
431
00:46:43.678 --> 00:46:47.845
[Julia speaking foreign language]
432
00:48:05.668 --> 00:48:07.067
[person speaking foreign language]
433
00:48:07.067 --> 00:48:10.560
[Julia speaking foreign language]
434
00:48:10.560 --> 00:48:14.227
[dramatic orchestral music]
435
00:48:31.220 --> 00:48:34.144
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
436
00:48:34.144 --> 00:48:36.817
[person speaking foreign language]
437
00:48:36.817 --> 00:48:40.984
[Julia speaking foreign language]
438
00:48:47.772 --> 00:48:52.272
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
439
00:49:06.753 --> 00:49:09.503
[birds chirping]
440
00:49:13.976 --> 00:49:18.226
[person speaking foreign language]
441
00:49:22.899 --> 00:49:25.380
[person speaking foreign language]
442
00:49:25.380 --> 00:49:29.547
[Julia speaking foreign language]
443
00:49:48.909 --> 00:49:50.629
[Julia sighing]
444
00:49:50.629 --> 00:49:54.712
[both speaking foreign language]
445
00:49:56.594 --> 00:49:59.427
[engine rumbling]
446
00:50:06.200 --> 00:50:10.450
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
447
00:51:01.165 --> 00:51:01.998
448
00:51:03.636 --> 00:51:07.886
[Ruslan speaking foreign language]
449
00:52:03.126 --> 00:52:05.876
[all chattering]
450
00:52:07.805 --> 00:52:12.055
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
451
00:52:30.705 --> 00:52:33.987
[person speaking foreign language]
452
00:52:33.987 --> 00:52:36.100
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
453
00:52:36.100 --> 00:52:37.649
[person speaking foreign language]
454
00:52:37.649 --> 00:52:41.899
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
455
00:52:44.154 --> 00:52:45.540
[person speaking foreign language]
456
00:52:45.540 --> 00:52:47.632
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
457
00:52:47.632 --> 00:52:48.877
[person speaking foreign language]
458
00:52:48.877 --> 00:52:51.222
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
459
00:52:51.222 --> 00:52:52.055
[person speaking foreign language]
460
00:52:52.055 --> 00:52:56.305
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
461
00:52:58.790 --> 00:53:00.276
[person speaking foreign language]
462
00:53:00.276 --> 00:53:01.729
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
463
00:53:01.729 --> 00:53:04.356
[person speaking foreign language]
464
00:53:04.356 --> 00:53:07.288
[all clapping]
465
00:53:07.288 --> 00:53:10.955
[dramatic orchestral music]
466
00:53:30.349 --> 00:53:34.849
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
467
00:53:59.112 --> 00:54:01.621
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
468
00:54:01.621 --> 00:54:05.871
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
469
00:54:13.701 --> 00:54:18.201
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
470
00:54:19.916 --> 00:54:22.499
[all laughing]
471
00:54:23.631 --> 00:54:26.308
[all chattering]
472
00:54:26.308 --> 00:54:30.558
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
473
00:54:37.308 --> 00:54:42.308
[all clapping]
[dramatic orchestral music]
474
00:54:50.432 --> 00:54:54.599
[all singing in foreign language]
475
00:54:56.920 --> 00:55:01.020
476
00:55:01.020 --> 00:55:04.283
because we not just meet the Theatre du Soleil,
477
00:55:04.283 --> 00:55:07.680
but we met all the actors from all Ukraine.
478
00:55:07.680 --> 00:55:09.335
It\'s very important for us.
479
00:55:09.335 --> 00:55:11.151
480
00:55:11.151 --> 00:55:14.086
that you met between you.
481
00:55:14.086 --> 00:55:15.919
That\'s very important.
482
00:55:16.764 --> 00:55:20.931
[all singing in foreign language]
483
00:55:41.993 --> 00:55:46.243
[person speaking foreign language]
484
00:55:51.765 --> 00:55:55.682
485
00:55:57.083 --> 00:56:01.250
[actor speaking foreign language]
486
00:56:17.153 --> 00:56:19.316
[person speaking foreign language]
487
00:56:19.316 --> 00:56:23.566
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
488
00:56:31.852 --> 00:56:34.602
[all chattering]
489
00:56:47.754 --> 00:56:50.408
[actor laughing]
490
00:56:50.408 --> 00:56:52.650
491
00:56:52.650 --> 00:56:53.910
and believe in you.
492
00:56:53.910 --> 00:56:55.260
You are talented.
493
00:56:55.260 --> 00:56:56.820
You have your life.
494
00:56:56.820 --> 00:56:57.957
We\'ll be here.
495
00:56:57.957 --> 00:56:59.190
And you can come.
496
00:57:00.238 --> 00:57:01.071
497
00:57:03.350 --> 00:57:05.898
498
00:57:05.898 --> 00:57:08.958
[actor laughing]
499
00:57:08.958 --> 00:57:13.208
[Ariane speaking foreign language]
500
00:57:41.703 --> 00:57:45.203
[gentle orchestral music]
501
00:58:01.708 --> 00:58:03.955
[all chattering]
502
00:58:03.955 --> 00:58:06.054
♪ We\'ll meet again ♪
503
00:58:06.054 --> 00:58:08.794
♪ Don\'t know when ♪
504
00:58:08.794 --> 00:58:13.794
♪ But I know we\'ll meet again some sunny day ♪
505
00:58:20.014 --> 00:58:21.617
[all laughing]
506
00:58:21.617 --> 00:58:23.351
[gentle orchestral music continues]
507
00:58:23.351 --> 00:58:26.101
[actor laughing]
508
00:58:32.939 --> 00:58:35.772
[engine rumbling]
509
00:58:38.769 --> 00:58:41.686
[percussive music]
510
00:58:45.964 --> 00:58:50.297
[gentle orchestral music continues]
511
00:59:00.359 --> 00:59:02.519
[audience applauding]
512
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:04.500
[Julia speaking foreign language]
513
00:59:04.500 --> 00:59:07.950
[gentle orchestral music continues]
Distributor: Icarus Films
Length: 59 minutes
Date: 2024
Genre: Expository
Language: English; French; Ukrainian / English subtitles
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Closed Captioning: Available
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