Serhiy Zhadan

Serhiy Zhadan

50 (1974-08-23)
Starobilsk, Ukraine

Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan (Ukrainian: Сергій Вікторович Жадан; born 23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, musician, translator, and social activist.

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The Wild Fields 2018 (6.8)

The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother’s sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to his own surprise, he decides to stay in his native town with people who love and believe him and need his defense.
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Witold 2023

After overhearing a quarrel, Witold, a new resident of the communal apartment, meets a young writer Serhiy. In no time, Serhiy becomes an extraordinary figure in Witold's life, revealing new and exciting sides of his personality. This short film is a quirky and absurd tragicomedy about artistic life and its pitfalls. Witold is based on the short story called My Nightmares by Serhiy Zhadan.
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Three friends have to urgently find the fourth, who has disappeared in an unknown direction, and inform him about his stepfather's suicide. In one of the apartments, they find an acquaintance nicknamed "Cocoa" who tells them about the whereabouts of the missing Sasha Carburetor. In the same apartment, under the influence of light drugs, Vasya the Communist and another character in the film named Zhadan listen to an evening program about the British band Depeche Mode.