People Who Came to Power

People Who Came to Power is a documentary film that traces the gradual sliding of society into war. Shot in March-April 2014 in Donbas region in East Ukraine, it represents the degradation of the social protest into an armed uprising heavily backed by covert foreign invasion. The film focuses on the depiction of the inner logic of the social movement, rather than on its individual participants. The narrative is concerned with the step-by-step disintegration of society into the state of war.