Roman Bondarchuk

VULKAN

Ukraine, Germany 2018 103′

VOLCANO
A series of odd coincidences has left Lukas, an interpreter for a military checkpoint inspection tour, stranded near a remote village in the south Ukrainian steppe. With nowhere to turn, this city boy finds shelter at the home of a colorful local named Vova. With Vova as his guide, Lukas is confronted by an anarchist universe beyond his imagination, a world in which life seems utterly detached from any identifiable structure. Fascinated by his host and his host’s daughter Marushka, Lukas’s contempt for provincial life slowly melts away and sets him on a quest for a happiness he never knew could exist.

Roman Bondarchuk
Graduate of the Karpenko-Kary Theater, Film and Television University (YuriyIllienko’s workshop). His graduation film Taxi Driver won the White Elephant prize from the Russian Film Critic Guild and the Russian Producers’ Grand Prix at the Kinoshok Open film festival, as well as the prize for ‘Boldness and Poetics’ at the 4th KINOTEATR.DOC festival. Bondachuk is an art director of Docudays UA – International Human Rights Film Festival in Kyiv. Bondarchuk is a co-director of Euromaidan Rough Cut, a film about the events on Maidan Square, which was premiered at IDFA. He has made a number of shorts, documentaries and music videos that have received awards at Ukrainian and international festivals. “Ukrainian Sheriffs” was his first feature-length documentary which won a Special Jury Award at IDFA 2015.

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