When bombs fall, what do you save? This doc watches art outrun war.
With the 2022 Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the paintings of the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art will be moved to a secret emergency storage facility, including large masterpieces. The documentary tells of the eventful history of a city and its art collection.
Direction
Kreuzer finds poetry in packing crates and spreadsheets.
Cinematography
Paintings glimpsed in transit hit harder than any gallery walk.
Director
Margarete Kreuzer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Odessa's museum holds Ukraine's only Caravaggio, making its evacuation a literal one-painting-at-a-time operation.
The film mirrors 1941, when the same museum evacuated ahead of Nazi occupation—some staff members remember family stories of both escapes.
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