'What we showed you is maybe one percent of what was really happening,' said the documentary's director, AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov.
The movie, from Frontline and AP, is a harrowing look at the beginning of the Russian invasion and how things got progressively worse for the residents of the city. Chernow, along with his colleagues Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko, document a city under siege while also putting their lives on the line. The journalists struggle to get their work out to the world as the city gets increasingly cut off.
After 20 days, the filmmaker and his team got out just in the nick of time as Russians were hunting down the group from AP that dared to report the truth of civilian attacks. Chernov, onstage with his colleagues and producers, cut a somber figure, expressing guilt about not doing enough or for even leaving the city in the first place. The day after they left, the Drama Theatre was famously bombed, and they felt that.
Chernov and his team haven’t stopped reporting from the front lines, and he said he’s sometimes asked, after almost dying in the city, why continue to risk your life?
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