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The Forgotten

The Forgotten

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 9, 2019

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Drama

User Score

69%

Original Title

Забуті

Production Companies

Directory Films, Jovera Pictures AG/SA, Lehmann Sisters

Director

Daria Onyshchenko

Description

Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.