Frost (2017 film)

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Directed byŠarūnas Bartas
Written byŠarūnas Bartas
Anna Cohen-Yanay
StarringMantas Jančiauskas
Lyja Maknavičiūtė
Vanessa Paradis
Weronika Rosati
Andrzej Chyra
CinematographyEitvydas Doškus
Frost
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Directed byŠarūnas Bartas
Written byŠarūnas Bartas
Anna Cohen-Yanay
StarringMantas Jančiauskas
Lyja Maknavičiūtė
Vanessa Paradis
Weronika Rosati
Andrzej Chyra
CinematographyEitvydas Doškus
Edited byDounia Sichov
Release dates
  • 25 May 2017 (2017-05-25) (Cannes)
  • 18 August 2017 (2017-08-18) (Lithuania)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesLithuania
France
Poland
Ukraine
LanguageLithuanian
Box office$37,081[1]

Frost (Lithuanian: Šerkšnas, Ukrainian: «Іній», romanized: Iniy) is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Šarūnas Bartas. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3] It was selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[4][5]

The young Lithuanian Rokas (played by Jančiauskas) drives with his girlfriend Inga (played by Maknavičiūtė) a humanitarian aid truck to Donbas region of Ukraine where, amid the violence and death of the war in Donbas, they meet different war reporters, one of whom is played by Vanessa Paradis.[6]

Cast

Production

The movie was filmed in frontline towns of Kurakhove, Marinka and Krasnohorivka.[6] Some scenes were filmed as close as 200–300 meters to the frontline.[6] Filming also took place in settings in Kyiv and Dnipro in Ukraine and in Poland and Lithuania.[6]

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