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Volcano (2018 film)

Volcano (Ukrainian title Вулкан, German title Vulcan) is a 2018 Ukrainian-German-Monaco drama film, and the feature directorial debut of Roman Bondarchuk [uk]. Through the character Lukas, an interpreter who is stranded in the region he was to help monitor for a security organization, the film examines the lives of people on the southern Ukrainian steppe who live in anarchic freedom, seemingly forgotten by the outside world.

Volcano
Official poster
UkrainianВулкан
Directed byRoman Bondarchuk
Written by
  • Daria Averchenko
  • Roman Bondarchuk
  • Alla Tyutyunnyk
Produced byOlena Yershova
Starring
CinematographyVadym Ilkov
Music byAnton Baibakov
Production
company
Tato Film
Release dates
  • 1 July 2018 (2018-07-01) (KVIFF)
  • 4 April 2019 (2019-04-04) (Ukraine)
Running time
106 min.[1]
CountryUkraine
Budget10,000,000

The film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on 1 July 2018 in the East of the West program. It won several awards at international film festivals, including the Grand Prize at festivals in Armenia, Croatia and Morocco. The film has been noted for its stunning visuals and a documentary feel attained through cinéma vérité techniques and the casting of non-actors. Bondarchuk received the Shevchenko National Prize for directing the film.

Plot edit

Lukas, an interpreter for the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), drives three colleagues into the deserted countryside of the southern Ukrainian steppe for an inspection tour of military checkpoints near the Crimean border.

Their car breaks down and with no cell phone reception, they find themselves at Beryslaw a district of Ukraine in the Oblast of Kherson. Here Lukas walks in search of assistance but fails to find any. On his return, the car with his colleagues has mysteriously disappeared, though he has the keys.

Left alone Lukas is picked up in a tank by Vova, and brought to a village overlooking the Kakhovka Reservoir. Once at the village Vova with his daughter Marushka decides to host Lukas, who during his staying is distressed by unfortunate events but each time Lukas is strangely saved by Vova.

Lukas's life changes while living with Vova, as he realise the feeling of happiness he thought he lost. The more he stays with Vova the more he understands the anarchic life of the village, as detached by any common structures. Although Lukas dislike Vova's eccentricities, he needs his support in the village where drunken gangs carry assault rifles, police rob detainees, slave labour is practiced, and nobody has a conventional job.

Even though the village's image Lukas begins to understand the people through their collective past. Also he grows interested in Vova's figures and falls in love with his daughter Marushka. Finally Lukas joins Vova in one of his get-rich schemes, diving to one of the drowned villages in the reservoir.

Cast edit

Only two professional actors are in the cast: Viktor Zhdanov and Khrystyna Deilyk.[2] Volcano is Deilyk's film debut.[1] Serhiy Stepansky was known to the film-makers from his work as a sound director.[3][2] The rest of the cast were found by Tatiana Simon from villages around the shooting location.[2]

  • Viktor Zhdanov as Vova
  • Serhiy Stepansky as Lukas
  • Khrystyna Deilyk as Marushka

Production edit

Writing and development edit

The script began development in the early 2010s, initially following a foreigner who was stranded at the Odesa airport due to volcanic eruptions in Iceland, and who then began traveling into the Ukrainian countryside.[3] Writers Daria Averchenko, Roman Bondarchuk and Alla Tyutyunnyk[4] greatly updated the plot following the Euromaidan movement, the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the Russian annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass, but kept the title "Volcano". Averchenko noted that the title symbolized the sudden cataclysm that can occur in a person's life.[3][5]

Bondarchuk and Averchenko have backgrounds in documentary-making, and had originally envisioned the project as a documentary.[2] The character Vova is based on Averchenko's uncle.[6][7] The writers based several other characters on family members in Kherson.[5][8][9] The film carries a dedication in memory of those whose villages were flooded by the creation of the Kakhovka Reservoir.[10]

In 2014, the production secured half of its 10,000,000 Ukrainian hryvnia budget from the Ukrainian State Film Agency.[3] It was produced by Olena Yershova of Tato Film (Ukraine) with co-producers Averchenko of South (Ukraine),[11] Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer of Elemag Pictures (Germany) and Michel Merkt of KNM (Monaco).[1]

Filming edit

The film was shot in Beryslav, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine,[2] on the Dnieper river, one hour north of Crimea.[5] The main camera was a Red Epic with Ultra Prime lenses; night exteriors were filmed with a Sony Alpha 7. All shooting was from tripod or shoulder mounts.[9] The script was significantly reworked during filming.[12]

Post-production was completed at Arri Media in Germany. According to Bondarchuk, the most complicated shots were the underwater scenes.[9] Bondarchuk also directed a music video for "DakhaBrakha",[13] a song which is used for the closing credits of the film.[6]

Release edit

Premiere and festival tour edit

Volcano was shown at more than 40 film festivals.[2] An early version of the film was shown in July 2017 at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) and the Odesa International Film Festival in the Works in Progress sections.[4] The film had its world premiere on 1 July 2018 at KVIFF, in the East of the West competition program.[14][11] It was also included in the 2018 competition programs of Filmfest München[15] and the Odesa International Film Festival.[16]

Theatrical edit

The film was to have been released in the Ukraine by distributor Arthouse Traffic on 21 February 2019. However, the distributor was changed to Ukrainian Film Distribution and the release was pushed back[17] to 4 April 2019.[18] Internationally, the film was distributed by Berlin-based Pluto Film Distribution Network.[8]

Streaming and television edit

The film was released for streaming in Eastern Europe on HBO Go in early 2019.[19] In March 2020, the film was released on the Takflix streaming service.[20] The film's television premiere was on the Ukrainian public television channel UA:Kultura on 27 June 2019.[13] It was broadcast following Kherson Region on the Volcano (Ukrainian: "Херсонщина на вулкані"), a documentary shot by Bondarchuk and the Volcano crew over seven days.[21]

Reception edit

Critical response edit

The film has received generally positive reviews in domestic and international media. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 83% fresh based on six reviews.[22]

Dmitry Desyaterik of The Day (Odesa-Kyiv) felt that any lacking of the screenplay was offset by Bondarchuk's ability to compose the beautiful shots, and his familiarity with the ancestral homeland in which he often films.[23] Two reviewers for Vertigo.com.ua were unsettled by the theme that civilization anywhere can break and throw people into anarchy. Sasha Rink alternated from viewing the film as surreal with "hyperbolized parodies" to documentary-realism – emphasized by rough shots and editing – which captured human essence. Jura Povorznyk felt that the film lacked art despite its great concept and cinematography, and found its documentary feel to leave an unsettling aftereffect at the reality of the world and human nature.[24][25]

Lukyan Galkin of Moviegram called Volcano "the most Ukrainian film in recent years". He compared the film to Wild Field, but with "Ukrainianness" completely shaping it, with magic realism, social absurdity and powerful unseen dangers at every turn.[26] A review for Pryamiy kanal praised the cinematography with its attention on detail after detail, the casting of the leads, and the film's contribution to Ukrainian poetic cinema.[27]

Marina Moinikhan described the film as an Acid Western with the protagonist's "psychedelic dissolution" of identity in a midlife crisis.[28] Igor Grabovich wrote for Detector Media that the film blends genres from horror to western, and black comedy to road film, and praised production designer Kirill Shuvalov and cinematographer Vadym Ilkov. He found the film to be a hopeful modern fairy tale as Lukas is symbolically reborn in the countryside.[29] Grabovich called it "a film about the eternal" which survives the fall of civilization.[12]

Demetrios Matheou of Screen Daily noted the film "ought to be fictional but rings true", juxtaposing brutal situations with alluring imagery, while realism is achieved with cinéma vérité techniques. He particularly noted the casting of non-actors, with Stepansky's underplayed reactions drawing in the audience.[30] Vassilis Economou of Cineuropa wrote that the movie was grounded by its "documentary feel" even when the narrative approached absurdity, allowing fantasy and reality to exist in balance. He felt that Bondarchuk was telling his own personal story as a Kherson native in his thirties raised in Kyiv.[5] Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a poetically surreal love letter" to the Kherson region, creating a world of "alien beauty".[8]

Alissa Simon of Variety praised the visuals and the score by Anton Baibakov, and listed Bondarchuk among the three most-intriguing Ukrainian filmmakers.[6] Meredith Taylor of Filmuforia wrote that Volcano had one of the most breathtaking opening sequences in 2018 film. She felt that the film captured the dichotomy of modern Ukraine, "hating Russians for stealing their country" but nostalgic for Soviet-era authority and security.[10]

Awards and nominations edit

Bondarchuck received the Shevchenko National Prize, Ukraine's highest state prize for cultural works, for directing Volcano.[31] The film won the Grand Prize at international film festivals in Armenia, Croatia and Morocco.[13]

List of awards and nominations
Year Ceremony Category Nominee or recipient Result Ref
2015 Coronation of the Word [uk] (Ukraine) Best Screenplay Daria Averchenko, Roman Bondarchuk and Alla Tyutyunnyk Won [4]
2017 8th Odesa International Film Festival (Ukraine) Best Work in Progress Volcano Won [32]
2018 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic) East to West Award
(Czech: Na východ od Západu)
Volcano Nominated [33]
15th Yerevan International Film Festival (Armenia) Golden Apricot grand prize Volcano Won [34][35]
36th Filmfest München (Germany) International Independents Volcano Nominated [36]
25th Palić European Film Festival (Serbia) Parallels and Encounters Volcano Nominated [37][38]
9th Odesa International Film Festival (Ukraine) Golden Duke [uk] Volcano Nominated
1st Eurasia International Film Festival (Kazakhstan) Best Director Roman Bondarchuk Won [39]
36th Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada) Most Popular International Feature Volcano Nominated
23rd Split Film Festival (Croatia) Grand Prize Volcano Won [40]
2nd Pingyao International Film Festival (China) Audience Jury Prize Volcano Won [41]
First National Film Critics Award [uk] (Ukraine) Kinokolo Award for Best Feature Film [uk] Volcano Nominated [42]
Best Actor Sergey Stepansky Nominated
25th Listapad (Belarus) Best Sound / Score Anton Baibakov Won [43]
25th Rabat International Film Festival [fr] (Monaco) Grand Prize Volcano Won [44]
49th International Film Festival of India Special jury prize for a directorial debut Volcano Won [45]
2019 Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival (United States) Special Jury Award – Emerging Filmmaker Volcano Won [46]
33rd Fribourg International Film Festival (Switzerland) Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury Volcano Won [47]

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External links edit

  • Volcano official trailer on YouTube (Ukrainian)
  • Volcano trailer on YouTube from Toronto International Film Festival (English subtitles)
  • Volcano at IMDb  
  • Volcano at distributor Pluto Films

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Volcano Ukrainian title Vulkan German title Vulcan is a 2018 Ukrainian German Monaco drama film and the feature directorial debut of Roman Bondarchuk uk Through the character Lukas an interpreter who is stranded in the region he was to help monitor for a security organization the film examines the lives of people on the southern Ukrainian steppe who live in anarchic freedom seemingly forgotten by the outside world VolcanoOfficial posterUkrainianVulkanDirected byRoman BondarchukWritten byDaria AverchenkoRoman BondarchukAlla TyutyunnykProduced byOlena YershovaStarringViktor ZhdanovSerhiy StepanskyKhrystyna DeilykCinematographyVadym IlkovMusic byAnton BaibakovProductioncompanyTato FilmRelease dates1 July 2018 2018 07 01 KVIFF 4 April 2019 2019 04 04 Ukraine Running time106 min 1 CountryUkraineBudget 10 000 000 The film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival KVIFF on 1 July 2018 in the East of the West program It won several awards at international film festivals including the Grand Prize at festivals in Armenia Croatia and Morocco The film has been noted for its stunning visuals and a documentary feel attained through cinema verite techniques and the casting of non actors Bondarchuk received the Shevchenko National Prize for directing the film Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Writing and development 3 2 Filming 4 Release 4 1 Premiere and festival tour 4 2 Theatrical 4 3 Streaming and television 5 Reception 5 1 Critical response 5 2 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 External linksPlot editThis article needs an improved plot summary Please help improve the plot summary March 2021 Learn how and when to remove this message Lukas an interpreter for the OSCE Organization for Security and Co operation in Europe drives three colleagues into the deserted countryside of the southern Ukrainian steppe for an inspection tour of military checkpoints near the Crimean border Their car breaks down and with no cell phone reception they find themselves at Beryslaw a district of Ukraine in the Oblast of Kherson Here Lukas walks in search of assistance but fails to find any On his return the car with his colleagues has mysteriously disappeared though he has the keys Left alone Lukas is picked up in a tank by Vova and brought to a village overlooking the Kakhovka Reservoir Once at the village Vova with his daughter Marushka decides to host Lukas who during his staying is distressed by unfortunate events but each time Lukas is strangely saved by Vova Lukas s life changes while living with Vova as he realise the feeling of happiness he thought he lost The more he stays with Vova the more he understands the anarchic life of the village as detached by any common structures Although Lukas dislike Vova s eccentricities he needs his support in the village where drunken gangs carry assault rifles police rob detainees slave labour is practiced and nobody has a conventional job Even though the village s image Lukas begins to understand the people through their collective past Also he grows interested in Vova s figures and falls in love with his daughter Marushka Finally Lukas joins Vova in one of his get rich schemes diving to one of the drowned villages in the reservoir Cast editOnly two professional actors are in the cast Viktor Zhdanov and Khrystyna Deilyk 2 Volcano is Deilyk s film debut 1 Serhiy Stepansky was known to the film makers from his work as a sound director 3 2 The rest of the cast were found by Tatiana Simon from villages around the shooting location 2 Viktor Zhdanov as Vova Serhiy Stepansky as Lukas Khrystyna Deilyk as MarushkaProduction editWriting and development edit The script began development in the early 2010s initially following a foreigner who was stranded at the Odesa airport due to volcanic eruptions in Iceland and who then began traveling into the Ukrainian countryside 3 Writers Daria Averchenko Roman Bondarchuk and Alla Tyutyunnyk 4 greatly updated the plot following the Euromaidan movement the 2014 Ukrainian revolution the Russian annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass but kept the title Volcano Averchenko noted that the title symbolized the sudden cataclysm that can occur in a person s life 3 5 Bondarchuk and Averchenko have backgrounds in documentary making and had originally envisioned the project as a documentary 2 The character Vova is based on Averchenko s uncle 6 7 The writers based several other characters on family members in Kherson 5 8 9 The film carries a dedication in memory of those whose villages were flooded by the creation of the Kakhovka Reservoir 10 In 2014 the production secured half of its 10 000 000 Ukrainian hryvnia budget from the Ukrainian State Film Agency 3 It was produced by Olena Yershova of Tato Film Ukraine with co producers Averchenko of South Ukraine 11 Tanja Georgieva Waldhauer of Elemag Pictures Germany and Michel Merkt of KNM Monaco 1 Filming edit The film was shot in Beryslav Kherson Oblast Ukraine 2 on the Dnieper river one hour north of Crimea 5 The main camera was a Red Epic with Ultra Prime lenses night exteriors were filmed with a Sony Alpha 7 All shooting was from tripod or shoulder mounts 9 The script was significantly reworked during filming 12 Post production was completed at Arri Media in Germany According to Bondarchuk the most complicated shots were the underwater scenes 9 Bondarchuk also directed a music video for DakhaBrakha 13 a song which is used for the closing credits of the film 6 Release editPremiere and festival tour edit Volcano was shown at more than 40 film festivals 2 An early version of the film was shown in July 2017 at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival KVIFF and the Odesa International Film Festival in the Works in Progress sections 4 The film had its world premiere on 1 July 2018 at KVIFF in the East of the West competition program 14 11 It was also included in the 2018 competition programs of Filmfest Munchen 15 and the Odesa International Film Festival 16 Theatrical edit The film was to have been released in the Ukraine by distributor Arthouse Traffic on 21 February 2019 However the distributor was changed to Ukrainian Film Distribution and the release was pushed back 17 to 4 April 2019 18 Internationally the film was distributed by Berlin based Pluto Film Distribution Network 8 Streaming and television edit The film was released for streaming in Eastern Europe on HBO Go in early 2019 19 In March 2020 the film was released on the Takflix streaming service 20 The film s television premiere was on the Ukrainian public television channel UA Kultura on 27 June 2019 13 It was broadcast following Kherson Region on the Volcano Ukrainian Hersonshina na vulkani a documentary shot by Bondarchuk and the Volcano crew over seven days 21 Reception editCritical response edit The film has received generally positive reviews in domestic and international media On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a score of 83 fresh based on six reviews 22 Dmitry Desyaterik of The Day Odesa Kyiv felt that any lacking of the screenplay was offset by Bondarchuk s ability to compose the beautiful shots and his familiarity with the ancestral homeland in which he often films 23 Two reviewers for Vertigo com ua were unsettled by the theme that civilization anywhere can break and throw people into anarchy Sasha Rink alternated from viewing the film as surreal with hyperbolized parodies to documentary realism emphasized by rough shots and editing which captured human essence Jura Povorznyk felt that the film lacked art despite its great concept and cinematography and found its documentary feel to leave an unsettling aftereffect at the reality of the world and human nature 24 25 Lukyan Galkin of Moviegram called Volcano the most Ukrainian film in recent years He compared the film to Wild Field but with Ukrainianness completely shaping it with magic realism social absurdity and powerful unseen dangers at every turn 26 A review for Pryamiy kanal praised the cinematography with its attention on detail after detail the casting of the leads and the film s contribution to Ukrainian poetic cinema 27 Marina Moinikhan described the film as an Acid Western with the protagonist s psychedelic dissolution of identity in a midlife crisis 28 Igor Grabovich wrote for Detector Media that the film blends genres from horror to western and black comedy to road film and praised production designer Kirill Shuvalov and cinematographer Vadym Ilkov He found the film to be a hopeful modern fairy tale as Lukas is symbolically reborn in the countryside 29 Grabovich called it a film about the eternal which survives the fall of civilization 12 Demetrios Matheou of Screen Daily noted the film ought to be fictional but rings true juxtaposing brutal situations with alluring imagery while realism is achieved with cinema verite techniques He particularly noted the casting of non actors with Stepansky s underplayed reactions drawing in the audience 30 Vassilis Economou of Cineuropa wrote that the movie was grounded by its documentary feel even when the narrative approached absurdity allowing fantasy and reality to exist in balance He felt that Bondarchuk was telling his own personal story as a Kherson native in his thirties raised in Kyiv 5 Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a poetically surreal love letter to the Kherson region creating a world of alien beauty 8 Alissa Simon of Variety praised the visuals and the score by Anton Baibakov and listed Bondarchuk among the three most intriguing Ukrainian filmmakers 6 Meredith Taylor of Filmuforia wrote that Volcano had one of the most breathtaking opening sequences in 2018 film She felt that the film captured the dichotomy of modern Ukraine hating Russians for stealing their country but nostalgic for Soviet era authority and security 10 Awards and nominations edit Bondarchuck received the Shevchenko National Prize Ukraine s highest state prize for cultural works for directing Volcano 31 The film won the Grand Prize at international film festivals in Armenia Croatia and Morocco 13 List of awards and nominations Year Ceremony Category Nominee or recipient Result Ref 2015 Coronation of the Word uk Ukraine Best Screenplay Daria Averchenko Roman Bondarchuk and Alla Tyutyunnyk Won 4 2017 8th Odesa International Film Festival Ukraine Best Work in Progress Volcano Won 32 2018 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Czech Republic East to West Award Czech Na vychod od Zapadu Volcano Nominated 33 15th Yerevan International Film Festival Armenia Golden Apricot grand prize Volcano Won 34 35 36th Filmfest Munchen Germany International Independents Volcano Nominated 36 25th Palic European Film Festival Serbia Parallels and Encounters Volcano Nominated 37 38 9th Odesa International Film Festival Ukraine Golden Duke uk Volcano Nominated 1st Eurasia International Film Festival Kazakhstan Best Director Roman Bondarchuk Won 39 36th Vancouver International Film Festival Canada Most Popular International Feature Volcano Nominated 23rd Split Film Festival Croatia Grand Prize Volcano Won 40 2nd Pingyao International Film Festival China Audience Jury Prize Volcano Won 41 First National Film Critics Award uk Ukraine Kinokolo Award for Best Feature Film uk Volcano Nominated 42 Best Actor Sergey Stepansky Nominated 25th Listapad Belarus Best Sound Score Anton Baibakov Won 43 25th Rabat International Film Festival fr Monaco Grand Prize Volcano Won 44 49th International Film Festival of India Special jury prize for a directorial debut Volcano Won 45 2019 Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival United States Special Jury Award Emerging Filmmaker Volcano Won 46 33rd Fribourg International Film Festival Switzerland Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury Volcano Won 47 References edit a b c Volcano Press Kit PDF Press release 2018 Archived from the original PDF on 20 July 2018 a b c d e f Konstantinova Katerina 29 March 2019 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