Why I'm Alive

Directed by Villen Novak

Written by Yevgeni Mitko

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera, denunciations to the NKVD, and a dance floor in the city garden, the persecution of religion and, of course, with love.

Cast

Viktor Zhdanov

Oleksa

Maksym Horay

Zhenka

Artem Vilbik

Ovsiy

Iryna Melnyk

Grandma Hanya

Olga Radchuk

Basya

Roland Mishko

Lyonchyk

Georgiy Deliev

Arno

Oleksiy Horbunov

Honcharov

Olena Bondareva-Repina

Honcharykha