Oleh Sentsov

1990년대 우크라이나의 산업 지역에 라이노라는 한 젊은 청년이 있다. 어린 시절 공격적인 비행청소년이었던 그는 이제 폭력 범죄자가 되었다. 포스트 소비에트 시대, 혹독한 경쟁 사회를 누비며 지역 범죄조직에서 빠르게 성장해가지만, 그의 인생과 주변 사람들의 희생이라는 혹독한 대가를 치러야만 한다. 라이노는 너무 늦기 전에 구원을 찾을 수 있을까?

1990년대 우크라이나의 산업 지역에 라이노라는 한 젊은 청년이 있다. 어린 시절 공격적인 비행청소년이었던 그는 이제 폭력 범죄자가 되었다. 포스트 소비에트 시대, 혹독한 경쟁 사회를 누비며 지역 범죄조직에서 빠르게 성장해가지만, 그의 인생과 주변 사람들의 희생이라는 혹독한 대가를 치러야만 한다. 라이노는 너무 늦기 전에 구원을 찾을 수 있을까?

1990년대 우크라이나의 산업 지역에 라이노라는 한 젊은 청년이 있다. 어린 시절 공격적인 비행청소년이었던 그는 이제 폭력 범죄자가 되었다. 포스트 소비에트 시대, 혹독한 경쟁 사회를 누비며 지역 범죄조직에서 빠르게 성장해가지만, 그의 인생과 주변 사람들의 희생이라는 혹독한 대가를 치러야만 한다. 라이노는 너무 늦기 전에 구원을 찾을 수 있을까?

Ten figures walk around in a circle. All they have is a number. The “Great Zero” monitors them. Based on a dystopian parable by Oleg Sentsov, this film was created between Kyiv and the Siberian penal colony where Sentsov spent five years as a political prisoner.

Ten figures walk around in a circle. All they have is a number. The “Great Zero” monitors them. Based on a dystopian parable by Oleg Sentsov, this film was created between Kyiv and the Siberian penal colony where Sentsov spent five years as a political prisoner.

Ten figures walk around in a circle. All they have is a number. The “Great Zero” monitors them. Based on a dystopian parable by Oleg Sentsov, this film was created between Kyiv and the Siberian penal colony where Sentsov spent five years as a political prisoner.

August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...

The boy's name is Alex, but in the world of gamers where he spends most of his time, he is known as Koss. The enormous amount of time he spends at the computer screen starts to pay off: in the games' clubs in his small Ukrainian village, he is the undisputed king of the shooting game Quake, admired by the 'noobs' - the younger and less experienced players he defeats digitally. But there is also a different side.

The boy's name is Alex, but in the world of gamers where he spends most of his time, he is known as Koss. The enormous amount of time he spends at the computer screen starts to pay off: in the games' clubs in his small Ukrainian village, he is the undisputed king of the shooting game Quake, admired by the 'noobs' - the younger and less experienced players he defeats digitally. But there is also a different side.