Story of Olena and her son Nazar from Mariupol

“Starting life anew”: The story of Olena and her son Nazar

Nazar, 11, still often goes to school in Berlin, Germany, with a blanket over him. Just as he did in the spring of 2022, when he and his mother Olena were fleeing their hometown of Mariupol, which was being ferociously destroyed by Russian troops. Olena is sometimes pierced by lightning memories of the sea, of the house destroyed by enemy bombing, of her favorite work, in which she poured her soul…
Watch the video to find out what Olena and Nazar managed to survive during three weeks of bombing in Mariupol, how they evacuated the city, and what their life in Berlin is like now.

Credits

Concept and Direction – Carina Spreitzer
Production – Austausch e.V. | dim filmhouse | Daria Lukashenko
Lead production dimfilmhouse – Eric Holland
Lead production Austausch e.V. – Nataliia Zviagintseva
Camera and Sound Germany – Andrej Matalyha
Camera and Sound Ukraine – Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
Postproduction Coordination – Carina Spreitzer
Cut – Anastasiia Lukova
Colour Correction and Grading – Oleksandr Shuklin
Sounddesign and Master – Marcos Leiro
Music – Marcos Leiro
Subtitles – Nataliia Zviagintseva | Carina Spreitzer
Sign language – Iryna Ternova
Dubbing to Ukrainian – Natalka Sopit and Kyrylo Bondarenko
Set-Runner Germany – Nikita Znak
Set-Runner Ukraine – Borys Viktiuk

This video was produced within the project “Barrier-free Safety for People with Disabilities”, which is the part of INKuLtur-Programme implemented by Austausch e.V. together with Eastern Partnership countries funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.