Oxygen Station (2023)

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine

Drama

Silk Films

Borys Orlov, Khrystyna Deilyk, Viktor Poltoratskyi, Vasyl Kukharskyi, Edem Ibadullaiev

Ivan Tymchenko

Mykhaylo Brynykh

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crimea

The film is based on the biographical events of the Crimeans' leader, human rights activist, Soviet political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Mustafa Jemilev. Summer of 1980. Mustafa Jemilev spends a four-year exile in Yakut village Zyryanka, where he works at an oxygen station. Every day he fills rusty tanks with oxygen and rolls them to the dock. This monotonous and exhausting work makes him resembled to the mythological Sisyphus. The events happen after 300-days hunger strike, which made him known all around the globe.

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