“Ukrainian Agony: The concealed war“ (Mark Bartalmai, 2015) [English]

A documentary about the early stages of the war in Donbass. Since July 2014, Mark Bartalmai has been living in Donetsk - precisely in the region in the Donbass where a bloody civil war is raging. For Western media consumers, one thing is certain: Putin is responsible for the conflict. But Mark Bartalmai wanted to know more and went directly to the war front with his camera. Ukrainian Agony bears witness to the cruelty of war. Propaganda has reached a completely new “quality“. Disinformation, secrecy, half-truths up to complete lies are the weapons of some Western media in this war - on an unprecedented scale. The filmmaker Bartalmai documented the truth on the ground at the risk of his life. As the only German journalist in the war zone, he managed to accompany military units of the Donetsk People’s Army - right into the thick of the fighting.