Director of the movie "Hoarfrost" about the war in the Donbass, Sharunas Bartas admitted that the events in Ukraine are very close to him, since they remind the story of his family.

Interview with the Lithuanian director published the publication "Ameba".

Bartas said that the war in Ukraine reminds him of the events of 1939, when the USSR introduced his army to the Baltic countries at the request of a certain group of people.

"You see, for me this is a very close-lying story to my heart, exciting me, frustrating, whatever you might say, but strongly touching. What happened in Ukraine not so long ago, almost one to one happened in the year 39 in the Baltics. The Soviet Union, which was preparing for World War II, needed a coast, an outlet to the West, and they did not look and took the army, removed power, placed their power. These people went to Moscow to ask for help from the Soviet Union. There was no referendum, but simply the delegation was asked to join this brotherhood of nations. It's almost the same as everything was, "- said the director.

Poster of the film "Hoarfrost" "In Crimea, too, there was a navy, a springboard to the Black Sea, and. So after that my whole life, the life of my parents, my father, who was sent to Siberia by Article 58, was the grandfather who was imprisoned ... Each Lithuanian family was affected by these 50 years in this cauldron. Destruction of all thinking people, and.

, I have absorbed it all since childhood. Honestly, the hatred for this act, she was always, and she very much sozonirovala in these incidents in Ukraine, "- admitted Bartas.

As reported by the "Observer", the military drama "Hoarfrost" with the participation of Vanessa Paradis (created with the support of the State Committee of Ukraine and almost completely filmed in Ukraine) was presented at the Cannes-2017 film festival.

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