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By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, March 11: A war documentary — 20 days in Mariupol – has won the coveted Oscar Award. Shot by a group of journalists, the film has bagged the Oscar Award in the category of documentary.
The Oscar Award to a documentary about the first dew days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has come at a time when the Ukraine War is running at top of the issues for the upcoming US Presidential elections. President Joe Biden is seen sweating to get the additional funding approval from the Congress. His rival and former US President Donald Trump is known to be an inward looking Republican. Trump and his party are creating roadblocks for the additional funding of the Ukraine War efforts.
The documentary ‘20 days in Mariupol’ had also bagged several critical accolades from the global film bodies before gaining the Oscar nominations. Ukrainian Mstyslav Chernov directed the film ‘20 days in Mariupol’. Chernov is a Pulitzer Prize winning acclaimed journalist.
Chernov had captured the the first onslaught of Russia in Mariupol. The port city after the invasion of the Russian army was left with a trail of destruction and deaths which continue even now.
The documentary is a joint production between the Associated Press and the PBS Frontline. It captures images of the killings and destructions in the port city. The film is based in the backdrop of the first three weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The AP, an international news agency, had said after the Oscar nomination that it was a first for a documentary produced by it in 178 years.
The AP had said that Chernov and a photographer Evgeniy Maloletka led the efforts to capture the Russian onslaught in the port city. Vasilisa Stepanenco was the field producer of the documentary, the AP had said.
Russia had bombarded Mariupol to cut off the city from the sea. This was to cut off Ukraine from an access to sea to ship its grains to the world market. The film claims to be real-time witness to atrocities of the Ukrainian people. The documentary has also won the first Oscar for Ukraine.
The film was shot in bunkers of the port city amid an advancing Russian army. The city had been later left in ruins, and tall buildings were flattened. The battle lasted for several days. The film gives an account of the killing of a four years old girl in the first few days of the attack by the Russian army and also graves dug up for the killed Ukrainians.
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