Conscience and Controversy
Journal: Film Quarterly
Year: 2022

Not since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 that ended its Prague Spring, and the Chilean coup of 1973 that ended the presidency of Salvador Allende, has the film world been as galvanized by one country’s struggle as it has been in 2022 by Ukraine’s—though, of course, countless other global conflicts, atrocities, and deaths (Brazil, Yemen, Syria, Gaza) have also deserved such attention.Members of the Russian filmmakers’ union Kino Soyuz—including directors Alexei Popogrebsky, Ilya Kh