"We cease offenders, we detect sabotage teams, we search for suspicious folks."
These phrases belong to Anatol Fon-Filandra... A former Ukrainian actor now become a soldier after the mobilisation within the nation began to shoot a film and returns to the massive display once more.
Filandra was an expert Ukrainian actor earlier than turning to the navy after Russia's invasion in February 2022, when he grew to become a serviceman within the Nationwide Guard of Ukraine. Right this moment, he's as soon as once more in entrance of the cameras and on the massive screens.
"My comrades discovered it very humorous once they realized about my career, about what I did earlier than the battle. There have been very totally different reactions. For instance: "give me an autograph, in order that in 10 years it may be bought for a big sum." says Filandra who utters these phrases whereas retaining watch in Chernigiv streets.
For 4 days solely, he acquired a particular authorisation to play in a brief film entitled "Let there be sunshine and let darkness perish" a love story happening throughout wartimes.
"Navy affairs are fairly routine and monotonous. Day in and day trip, it's a must to do some unpopular issues. However these actions have very important ends in the long term. My goal with this undertaking is to attract consideration to the navy, to the issues that exist." says Filandra and explains the scenario that his nation faces.
The director of the film Igor Tykhomyrov wrote the screenplay earlier than 2014. However he says that it nonetheless turned out related in the present day.
"I believe that the truth that we did not shoot it till now is smart in the present day. Right this moment is the time to speak about issues like that. We bought permission for Anatol to play within the undertaking from the Nationwide Guard in a somewhat simple means as a result of we first despatched the script, they learn it, they understood that the story was patriotic, filled with sense, that it was critical cinema." provides the 51-year-old cinematographer.
Igor Orynko, Commander of the navy unit 3082 of the Nationwide Guard of Ukraine says that typically new troopers had extra motivation than the outdated ones and Anatol is seemingly one in all them.
"There are individuals who had been already serving (within the navy), individuals who had been studying. He wasn't preventing, he wasn't studying, however he simply got here (Anatol). And I'll say that he has the motivation and the need to defend your nation, typically much more so than an individual already within the navy, who had already realized," says Orynko.
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