To the Zero Line

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Ruby Z @RT76132591 Jun 15 Benjamin Goldhagen's To the Zero Line is one of the essential documentaries on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and one of the few that refuses to reduce the war to its violence alone. Where films like 20 Days in Mariupol document the invasion's atrocities from the journalist's vantage point, Goldhagen embeds himself in the full cycle of Ukrainian civilian life: births, weddings, funerals, soldiers departing for the front, and the families they leave behind. The "zero line" of the title is Goldhagen's term for the point of contact with your worst fears, the front, where Ukrainian soldiers face Russian forces directly. But the film argues that everyone living through this war has their own zero line. The mother is waiting for news. The doctor is working without supplies. The city that goes to sleep not knowing if it will be shelled by morning. See more Read all reviews

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