Russian Film Series: Focus on Ukraine, “Pit #8”

Pit #8

Directed by: Marianna Kaat, 2012, 95 min.

The film is made in the area where this summer the military conflict erupted and the plane crashed down: the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal-mining region Donbass. The town’s desperate residents are involved into illegal mining including a 15-year-old boy Yura, the grandson of a powerful Soviet plant director. What kind of future he has?