Archive of films Volcano / Vulkan
Ukraine / Germany
2018, 106 min
Section:
East of the West - Competition
Year: 2018
One day Lukas, employed as an interpreter for an OSCE mission, becomes lost in the middle of the steppe in southern Ukraine. His journey towards self-recognition and happiness will be flanked by a series of strange encounters and bizarre situations… Roman Bondarchuk’s novel feature debut is a tragicomedy whose striking visuals aid him in fleshing out the colorful world of southern Ukraine, a place which still bears unmistakable traces of the distant and not-too-distant past.
Synopsis
One day Lukas, employed as an interpreter for an OSCE mission, becomes lost in the middle of the steppe in southern Ukraine. As fate would have it, he ends up in a sleepy little town where he finds shelter with an idiosyncratic local named Vova and his daughter Marushka. At this point Lukas doesn’t much know which direction his life should take. His next journey towards self-recognition and happiness will be flanked by a series of strange encounters and bizarre situations… As with his internationally successful documentary Ukrainian Sheriffs, Roman Bondarchuk chose a tragicomic tone for his novel debut in features, and with the help of striking visuals, he vividly portrays the colorful world of southern Ukraine, which still bears unmistakable traces of the distant and not-too-distant past.
Lenka Tyrpáková
About the director

Roman Bondarchuk (b. 1982, Kherson, Ukraine). Filmography: Commemoration Day (Radunytsya, 2007, short), Mms (2009, short), Euromaidan. Rough Cut (Yevromaidan. Chornovyi montazh, 2014, doc.), Dixieland (2015, doc.), Ukrainian Sheriffs (Ukrainski sherifi, 2015, doc.), Volcano (Vulkan, 2018)
Contacts
Pluto Film
Schliemann Strasse 5, 10437, Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 030 219 182 20
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.plutofilm.de
About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | East of the West - Competition |
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Director: | Roman Bondarchuk |
Screenplay: | Alla Tyutyunnik, Roman Bondarchuk, Darya Averchenko |
Dir. of Photography: | Vadim Ilkov |
Music: | Anton Baibakov |
Editor: | Mykola Bazarkin, Heike Parplies |
Producer: | Olena Yershova |
Production: | Tato Film |
Coproduction: | Elemag Pictures GmbH |
Cast: | Serhiy Stepansky, Viktor Zhdanov, Khrystyna Deilyk |
Sales: | Pluto Film |
Guests

Olena Yershova
Producer, Sales Agent

Daniela Cölle
Sales Agent

Roman Bondarchuk
Film Director

Alla Tyutyunnyk
Screenwriter

Darya Averchenko
Festival Organizer, PR & Marketing, Producer

Serhiy Stepansky
Actor

Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer
Producer