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Klondike
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Klondike (2022)

War Foreign Drama
Unrated
100 min.
Release Date
August 4, 2023 (Limited)
Director
Maryna Er Gorbach
Writer
Maryna Er Gorbach
Cast
Oksana Cherkashina, Sergey Shadrin,  Oleg Scherbina,  Oleg Shevchuk,  Artur Aramyan,  Evgenij Efremov
Running Time
100 minutes
MPA Rating
Unrated

What is Klondike about?

The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine 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.

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MOVIE REVIEW

If there is any year when one should watch a bleak drama about an Ukrainian couple trapped behind enemy lines during a Russian invasion, I suppose it’s this year. Klondike, filmed before the current Ukraine-Russia War and set during the 2014 Crimea invasion, is a dark, sad, but most upsettingly emotionally flat drama that frustratingly never kicks into gear. Full movie review »