The Forgotten

2019 · 105 min · Drama

Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.

Director: Daria Onyshchenko
Writers: Daria Onyshchenko, Claudia Lehmann
Released: October 9, 2019
Language: Ukrainian

Cast

Maryna Koshkina
Nina
Danyil Kamenskyi
Andrii
Oleksiy Horbunov
Vasyl
Vasyl Kukharskyi
Yura
Serhii Smeian
Kyryl
Lyublyana Fenchak
A boy's mom in a tie
Andrii Titov
Director
Yaroslav Ihnatenko
Bogdan
Volodymyr Yamnenko
Zhora
Igor Kostin

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