Volcano 2018 film

Volcano is a 2018 Ukrainian-German-Monaco drama film, and the feature directorial debut of Roman Bondarchuk. Through the character Lukas, an interpreter who is stranded in the region he was to help monitor for a security organization, the film examines the lives of people on the southern Ukrainian steppe. The film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on 1 July 2018 in the East of the West program. It won several awards at international film festivals, including the Grand Prize at festivals in Armenia, Croatia and Morocco. The script began development in the early 2010s, initially following a foreigner who was stranded at the Odesa airport due to volcanic eruptions in Iceland, and who then began traveling into the Ukrainian countryside. Writers greatly updated the plot following the Euromaidan movement, the Russian annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass, but kept the title "Volcano". Averchenko noted that the title symbolized the sudden cataclysm that can occur in a person's life. The writers based several other characters on family members in Kakhovka Reservoir.