SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE

How to live in a shadow of an empire? How can you think about the future if all that you see through the window are barbed wires, armored vehicles and tanks? Aleksey from Nagorno-Karabakh, Timur from Ukraine, and Alexander from Georgia are facing these questions every day. These three men differ in almost every aspect of their lives, but in fact each of them experiences the same consequences of their very existence. Each one of them experiences war. We observe people involved in the already forgotten border conflicts, that happened after the USSR collapse, and are still alive due to the Russian imperial policy.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 73
  • Year: 2019
  • Color: colour

Director: Karol Starnawski

Script: Tomasz Grzywaczewski, Dawid Wildstein

DOP: Filip Drożdż

Editing: Paweł Kowalik

Sound: Grzegorz Różycki, Piotr Domaradzki

Production company: Kadr Film Studio

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About the director:

Karol Starnawski

Karol Starnawski

Born in 1990 in Gdynia. He graduated in film directing at the Lodz Film School. The author of several short documentary and fiction films, including “Drogi Karolu…”, “Kawaler” and “Przedzialy”. A laureate of many film festival prizes. He was the director’s assistant in the highly acclaimed feature film production “Ostatnia rodzina”, directed by Jan P. Matuszynski. The film “Shadows of the Empire” is his feature documentary debut.

At festivals:

59th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2019

13th Human Rights Film Festival “Inconvenient Films”, Lithuania, 2019 (screening)

21st IFF ETNOFILM Čadca, Slovakia, 2020 (competition)