20 Days in Mariupol

Name: 20 Days in Mariupol
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 14, 2023
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 83

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| Release Date: July 14, 2023 | Not Rated

Summary: As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.

Director: Mstyslav Chernov

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 4, 2023

This searing film bears a terrible witness to this great crime. Read full review

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Jason Farago

Jul 13, 2023

20 Days in Mariupol, a relentless and truly important documentary, engulfs us in the initial ferocity of Russia’s siege of a city whose name has become a byword for this war’s inhumanity: My Lai, Srebrenica, Aleppo, Mariupol. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jul 21, 2023

Acrid and harrowing, it’ll slap you awake. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Jan 22, 2023

Ultimately, Chernov’s film is a compelling record of senseless destruction and death, and a salute to the enduring resilience of a people who refuse to surrender their home. Read full review

David Fear

Jul 13, 2023

20 Days in Mariupol gives you a sense of life during wartime that isn’t an abstraction, some distant thing happening to people thousands of miles away. The intimate feeling of what it’s like to have your country invaded, your living spaces demolished, and your closest family members killed before your eyes is palpable, and also gut-wrenching. Read full review

The Film Stage Alistair Ryder

Feb 5, 2024

20 Days in Mariupol is both essential and far from perfect. It can’t be fully, objectively judged when much of the footage within is as urgent as this; it needs to be seen, if only for the vague hope it can help hold the perpetrators’ feet to the fire. Read full review

Marina Ashioti

Oct 5, 2023

What we can do, like these journalists, is bear witness to the pain in the hope that it transforms into an urgent, rallying cry, and address our universal capacity to connect with the pain and suffering of others. Read full review

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greengrounds

Jul 17, 2023

This is pure propaganda, designed to gain support for more funding for Ukraine and endless wars. Sponsored by the military industrial complex.

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