Another return to Ukraine

WITH Marc Rousselque, junto s Gilles Hertzog and conmigo, I shot it all from the beginning, we’re losing the story.

Willingness to cover this war in a different way, from day one to day one. But we also want to stay there even when we’re not running. Just there.

I don’t know why. They say it’s out of solidarity. I hope to be warm in Paris while Kiev hides and dies. I would like to meet again Sergeand Bogdan to the friends with whom we shared the most memories that over time, for a lifetime.

Saber de Nestorour young cameraman who sang about the hippie melena and was moved in front of Pokrovsko.

Many of those recorded are not in our four films. Only now, on the Maidan, walking in the snow and amidst the sound of sirens, we can evoke them. Or not.

Because not all of them are portable between us.

Let’s not try it. Callamos. Just happy to stay together and talk. So he was in Bosnia three years ago. Same mechanism. The same, irrevocable, attraction.

Included as more time passes.

And that’s even when you don’t have to keep your head longer than when writing another book.

Advisor, inside me, payments? Is it true? Is he one of those who starts the story in two? It’s not that.

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Now is the unembargoed anniversary (can we say “anniversary”?) of that fateful February 24, four years ago, when the war changed its scope and name.

Zelenskytoasted but en cake (how do you get it?).

Olena Zelenskathe first lady who chairs, steadfastly (how can she?), a conference on justice and children’s affairs.

It is the school on Calle Bohdan-Jmelnitski that we filmed in the previous documentary and where I am raising a father who will enable even the smallest children not to die young.

And now it’s our last movie Our wars (“Our War”), which was broadcast by French and state television and platforms, but which was not seen by Ukrainians.

The project takes place in the “red campus” of Taras Shevchenko University, from where I was pronounced last year at the invitation of my friend Constantin Sigov, The Enduring Rise of Arthur Poutine (“La ascensión resistible de Arturo Putin”), which he alludes to Brecht enfureció, in social red Russia, on a handful of intellectuals with gallons.

The location must remain a permanent secret until this morning. But they are all there (how do they get there?).

Los amigos, another time.

Citizens of the city who want to celebrate the anniversary by celebrating the heroism of the people who four years ago (unprecedented in history!) kept alive one of the most powerful armies in the world.

Philosophy students on campus.

Sergiy Kyslytsyajefe adjunto presidential office.

And then the characters in the film, some of them with permission for a day left the front of the room where we were filming and stayed. Leisure. I didn’t want to say Proustian things. Malapartian Digamos.

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This morning the Russians attacked one of the three power plants that power Kiev and its suburbs. It’s a huge enclosure, ten acres, quiz more; This is not how I imagined it (no honor gave me permission to enter there).

People have destroyed a lot of understanding with the city in those four years. All parts of the building are insulated.

Chapas retorcidas.

Visceras tecniques expuestas al wind helado ya la snow.

Cooling towers agrietadas by an expansive wave of explosions.

Maple wires or high voltage cables plugged into the vacuum cleaner.

Alfombras de vidrio roto.

Y, in the heart of this field of ruins, two masters of life.

Men with work helmets on their heads who repair, repair and come to repair.

And then, protected by a thick plastic curtain that retains some heat, a vast capsule, which in its archaism (it was built in the Soviet era!) resembles a jet cabin or the cranial cavity of a mechanical giant, and in which pressure gauges, voltmeters, ammeters, batteries and pilots controlling the operational parts of the control panel are concentrated.

It is the last control room that allows you to illuminate and illuminate a part of the city once a day. It is the only place in the enclosure that cannot be evacuated in the event of an attack.

The bombers of Notre-Dame de Paris were called “Fire Soldiers”.

How do I remember these other soldiers, these brave and resourceful engineers who work day and night to keep Kiev from plunging into absolute darkness?

Guardians of the corridor. Sentinels of Light. Other heroes of Ukraine.