Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands
February 23, 2026
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Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands
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Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands
Summary
For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for a profile of the Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk, whose deadpan, absurdist comedies cut through the myth-making around his country by investigating the “no man’s land” of his native Kherson region. Bondarchuk’s recent feature The Editorial Office was completed during the full-scale invasion by Russia and speaks with particular clarity to the challenges that Ukraine was facing before the war and will face after it.
Read the original piece here and watch Bondarchuk’s 2018 comedy Volcano on Klassiki now.
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