In Ukraine, a scandal erupted around the Russian director Alexander Molochnikov, who is going to shoot a short film about orphans from Bakhmut near Kyiv, allegedly received permission for this from officials from the President's Office. Director Irina Tsylyk announced this on Facebook..

According to her, Molochnikov collects children for filming, but the parents were not explained in detail who and what will be filmed.. In particular, they hide from them the fact that the director is Russian..

“Imagine your children were invited to take part in the casting for the filming of a feature film about the unfortunate orphans who were left without a mother in Bakhmut during the war. You record acting tests, send them, and in the end, quite by accident, information pops up that this is a film by a Russian director, who filmed the series in Russia last year, and now lives in New York and has an American passport, - wrote Irina. - Oleksandr Molochnikov plans to shoot his short feature film about the children of Bakhmut in the coming days near Kiev, he is already in Ukraine with the operator and is trying to quickly assemble a Ukrainian team and shoot in a real location - a destroyed house. Here is just the information that the director is Russian, why he is mostly hiding from potential participants..

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As the woman notes, she knows about this according to the Ukrainian production designer Ivan Levchenko, to whom Molochnikov approached with an offer to work on the project.

“Vanya “turned on the fool”, received the script and recorded their audio conversation. According to Molochnikov, he has the support of the Office of the President of Ukraine and received press cards for himself and the operator. (UPD I can’t know this for sure, I’m retelling the words of Molochnikov, which I heard with my own ears in a recorded conversation), ”continued Tselik.

Ivan Levchenko provided a recording of this conversation to the Glavkom publication.. According to the publication, judging by the recording, in a conversation, Levchenko asked how the film’s team was going to shoot, if they had at least some kind of permission..

“Without super details: we have an agreement, we managed to show the synopsis, it seems to be “to the first person”. Well, that's what they told me. Then they called me from the presidential administration and said that when we find the object and tell them, they will give a signal to the local administration,” Molochnikov says in a conversation, noting that since he is Russian, the implementation of the project will not be so simple.

According to Molochnikov, he received a phone call from Elena Kovalska, head of the Main Directorate for Strategic Communications of the Directorate for Information Policy of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

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We add that, judging by the information from the Russian media, Molochnikov was in a relationship with the Russian actress and TV presenter Ekaterina Varnava, who illegally visited the annexed Crimea for a long time..

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