The War of Chimeras (2017)
28.03.2022
It's a real story about love, war and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Director Anastasia Starozhitskaya and her boyfriend, a warrior Valery Lavrenov, are filming what's happening to them and telling each other about their feelings. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. He volunteered for the front; she went to the place just after the battle. He got into Ilovaysk cauldron, lost his closest brother-soldiers. She, while travelling along the ruined towns, strives to understand the essence of war and love. Both tell openly one another about their feelings during the war, escaping the cauldron, a try to live together after, and a common trip to the frontline.