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That quote from HBOs Chernobyl series can be applied wonderfully at this movie. Full of made up lies, this movie is trying to give the unprovoked and senseless invasion of Ukraine by Russia a purpose by showing us a fictional "Ukrainian" village where a fictional "genocide" was supposed to have happened. None of this is true of course, but even besides that you can see that the movie was filmed in a way to bring it out as soon as possible with little to no care and craftmanship whatsoever. The actors are bad, the plot as I pointed out is completely fictional, the soundtrack is inappropriate. By the way, when the US invaded Iraq I dont remember Hollywood producing movies which spread lies about Saddam Husseins weapons of mass destruction. The fact that Russia is in need of such cheap propaganda movies should tell you everything about this unjustifiable war.

Anyway, 250.000 Russians already had to pay their debt to the truth, more to come. This movie wont change anything about that fact.

100% lies, lies and lies Lies - this is the only quality product the russia can produce, hopefully Thus movie is recommended for the students of international affairs to understand how modern autocracy propaganda works.

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What a shame for all actors to be involved to a film whose main goal is to hide the real Russian war crimes in Bucha. Who will really believe that "Ukrainians killed themselves," while the Russian paratroopers in Bucha were simply playing with kittens during the invasion and doing good deeds? Come on, this is obvious nonsense...

It's not strange that Russia was in such a hurry to produce this film, and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation gave money for it.

It is also not strange that this film failed in Russian cinemas (even taking into account the fact that there are no Hollywood films there now, and the population is "warmed up" by pro-war rhetoric).

Even from an artistic point of view, this is a failed film with a lot of mistakes and an illogical plot.

Shame on everyone involved.

This abomination must be given a rating of 0(zero), or just in case of such awful poorly made flicks, this is to be awarded even -100 (minus hundred).

This is so poor, so foolishly shallow, badly executed, so lop-sided and so biased. This is a shameful example of Putin's propagda that does not deserve to be watched bit only mocked at, ridiculed, traduced and then discarded for ever.

War cannot be excused and no film ever would serve as any sorry attempt of war crimes.

This flick will be forgotten, it already is a huge flop even in Russia, and such films must be shown to criminals as examples of terrible horrid propaganda efforts to whiten a black wolf.

Watch it at your own will, but remember, this is a lie, black and blatant fascist lie at its worst with all the traces of poor plot, awful script, bad actors and terrible dialog.

Firstly, I'm a military movie buff and don't care about politics if the film is done correctly.

Seeing the low review score for this, I felt that I needed to watch it and give it a fair shake.

Each country produces their own propaganda movies & that is to be expected. After watching all of the pro-Ukrainian movies, I wanted to see one from the Russian viewpoint and this movie delivered that.

For the movie, I was only able to locate a very rough copy, so I can't comment on the video quality.

The acting is fine and anyone who had seen the actual "real" videos on LiveLeak coming out of the Ukraine from 2014 will be familiar with some of the subject matter.

It's totally pro-Russian (as expected) with some Holocaust vibes thrown in and of course anyone pro-Ukrainian will object to and downvote it.

As with any conflict/war, atrocities are committed by both sides; no one comes out completely clean and no one will ever know the truth, except those who were there.

Overall, it's a decent film and worth a watch, if you can find it.