Il fattore umano Where is victory - Original language

A year and a half after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fighting has not stopped. Over two hundred thousand people have been killed on both sides, while the number of wounded is around one hundred and eighty thousand. Entire cities have been destroyed causing at least eight million refugees in Europe. Not everyone, however, could escape. Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has forced young people between the ages of 18 and 60 not to leave the country in order to answer a possible call to arms. Russia has also increased recruitment: last spring alone, Moscow sent out fifty-two thousand conscription cards. The reportage recounts the training by American officers of Ukrainian recruits on the one hand, and on the other the stories of those who have decided to reject the very concept of war. These are young Russians and Ukrainians who have fled or are trying to escape from the logic of the trenches, denouncing how in this conflict - as in all conflicts - it is always the most unfortunate who pay the highest price. Some of them now live in exile so as not to submit to the war, so as not to have to fight on the Ukrainian front. This is the other resistance to war, the resistance from below, in countries where it is currently difficult to find space for anything but war propaganda. The narrator is Hanna Bilobrova, a Lithuanian actress and director who still believes in peace, despite carrying the corpse of her husband killed by the Russians in her car for hours. Hanna completed the film testament of her husband Kvedaravicius, who was arrested and killed by Russian soldiers on 2 April during the siege of Mariupol. The Lithuanian director and anthropologist had filmed Mariupolis2 there, which was presented in Cannes by his wife Hanna. The film documents the life of Ukrainian civilians who had taken refuge in a church, the everyday life of war, the despair and hope of those inhabitants living in the rubble and feeling forgotten by the world.