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"2000 Meters to Andriivka" is not the first full-length feature about the Russia- Ukraine conflict to be Oscar-nominated - "20 Days in Mariupol" won the award two years ago. Both films were made by journalist Mstyslav Chernov but whereas the first concentrated on the civilian experience, "2000 Meters to Andriivka" follows the troops of the Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade into battle during a fierce counter-offensive in June 2023...
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The combat footage is real - soldiers are injured and killed on camera - and often taken direct from the helmet cameras worn by the soldiers to provide a visceral first-person experience of the attempt to recapture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. The route there takes in the small village of Andriivka, 6 miles to the south, and a small forest about a mile long with minefields on either side.
The entirety of the film was shot in this wooded area and Chernov has explained why: "I wanted that distance to become very short for the audience... [that one mile of forest is] the entire life for a lot of these people... I wanted distance between that little forest and the village of Andriivka, and U.S. and Europe to be shorter. I wanted people to see that it’s so much closer than they think."
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'2000 Meters to Andriivka' - Need to Know
'2000 Meters to Andriivka' - Contributors
- Mstyslav Chernov – Filmmaker, Ukrainian journalist, war correspondent, and the principal on-camera narrator
- Alex Babenko – Associated Press journalist and colleague of Chernov
- Ukrainian soldiers of the 3rd Assault Brigade – Unit charged with the attempt to secure Andriivka
'2000 Meters to Andriivka' - Official Trailer
What other films has Mstyslav Chernov made?
His breakthrough film as director, writer and cinematographer was "20 Days in Mariupol." Released in 2023, the full-length documentary covered the siege of Mariupol during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
What else has Mstyslav Chernov said about "2000 Meters to Andriivka"?
When did filming begin?
"We were presenting "20 Days in Mariupol" in the summer of 2023 in the U.S. and in Europe. We were screening for big audiences. We had red carpets, conversations with critics, and at the same time, I would go back — fly to Poland, cross the border, get a train, get a car, and jump in a trench and immerse myself in that world of the trench warfare, together with Alex Babenko, my co-producer and a friend, on the second camera. And we would shoot the counteroffensive that Ukraine was launching all across the front line for weeks. And then I would go back and attend more screenings, more red carpets and then again fly back to Ukraine. So that was my world."
How did you realize the form it would take?
"I was so devastated by "20 Days in Mariupol" as we were presenting it to the world, that I was looking for a perspective of a reverse direction: when the same people who lost everything, they fight back. They take agency and they take their homes back. They take their memories back. "2000 Meters to Andriivka" is a film that has at its core an idea of the importance of realism. When we invite the audience to the war zone, when we invite them to places like trenches — which sometimes feels like being on another planet — we want them not just to watch it, we want them to feel it. We want them to have an experience of it and be as close as possible to our protagonists, to the people who are right now on the front line."
Why did you include the footage that you did include?
"The way we built the film, it is based on the distance. So, we were looking for battles that were happening and being recorded around that distance that we were walking through. We were also looking for the battles that would have a story in them. Some battles are very chaotic and you can’t really understand what’s happening, but some battles are pretty clear on where they start, what’s the goal, and how it unfolds. And they all have their own big dramas in them — someone gets missing, someone gets found, someone gets injured and is being pulled out from the battlefield and you don’t know what’s going to happen to them."
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