“We found out what the noise of fighter jets was. A deafening noise. The sound of death. » Olga took refuge in the basement of her building in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, when the Russian army raided her neighborhood in March last year. She and her husband are then buried under the rubble. Neither her husband Valery nor Olga’s parents, who stayed upstairs, survived. Today in a wheelchair, this former accountant, born when the pearl of the Donbass was still called Zhdanov, in the days of the Soviet Union, now lives in the Netherlands, far from the war started by Moscow a year ago, February 24. She agreed to testify in the film by English documentary filmmaker Robin Barnwell, alongside a dozen survivors of the siege of the city.
From the beginning of the war until May 21, the date of the surrender of the last Ukrainian fighters entrenched in the Azovstal metallurgical complex, the 430,000 inhabitants of Mariupol suffered from the lack of water, electricity, food and the dumping of thousands of bombs on their city. Nearly three months of hell documented by the witnesses themselves who offered the director the videos shot with their phones. Combining images of the siege and testimonies, Robin Barnwell retraces these three months day after day. Alevtina, Diana, Oksana, Hanna and the others all met death, narrowly escaping the bombardments. They accurately recount the first destructions and the
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