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Life to the Limit

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Documentary, Color, 2022, 1h 48m

Directed by: Pavlo Peleshok
Music by: Oscar Senen
Produced by: Yurko Ivanyshyn, Pavlo Peleshok, Anastasiia Borodienkova
Production stage: UKR.STREAM
Country of production: Ukraine
Expected release: June, 2022

"The truth will be revealed only when you reject all prejudices..."

Synopsis:

Two successful film producers with an office in the center of Kyiv after the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014 decide to leave everything and volunteer for the war in eastern Ukraine, to defend the homeland from the Russian occupiers.

After two years of war (2016), the film they started producing on the Maidan, "Winter on Fire" became a nominee for the American Academy Award, the "Oscar".

Commander releases boys on short-term leave so they can travel to California

A week after the awards ceremony and elite cocktail parties in Los Angeles, they are returning to the trenches of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Five years later, veterans, at the cost of losing close friends, "survivor's guilt syndrome", post-traumatic stress disorder, medals for bravery, return to their profession to show from fragments of memories and their own video archive why the Russian-Ukrainian war was possible in the 21st century.

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Director’s profile:

Pavlo Peleshok is director, producer and screenwriter. Veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war (2014-2020). Formerly a professional car racer. Winner of Championships and Cups of Ukraine. At the end of his career he opened his own production company. In 2013-14, during the Revolution of Dignity, he co-founded Ukr. Stream with Yurko Ivanyshyn, a social journalism project with an audience of two billion views worldwide. He became a streamer on the Maidan, a volunteer in the war, a volunteer, and later an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 2020 returned to work as a director and producer.