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Fragile Memory

Ukrainian filmmaker聽Igor Ivanko聽attempts to record the recollections of his grandfather, renowned cinematographer聽Leonid Burlaka,聽before they faded into oblivion.

A young filmmaker Igor Ivanka finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer. Discovering a man that he never knew well enough through the damaged pictures, he gets closer to his dementing grandpa, facing the tension between memory and forgetting. The Ukrainian cinematographer Igor meets a young Soviet cinematographer Leonid, who started establishing his career during the 'Khrushchev Thaw'. However, time is running out: soon Leonid will not remember Igor at all.

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2 hours, 5 minutes

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