film review

Russian-Canadian director Trofimova has created a raw work of observational cinema that plunges the audience into a very specific, very narrow reality.

Russians at War

Directed by Anastasia Trofimova

Written by Roland Schlimme

Classification N/A; 129 minutes

Available for digital rental at russiansatwar.com starting Aug. 15

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“Who needs this war?”

It is a question that could be asked – should be asked – every day, every minute of this current and cursed era. And yet it is also a question that went largely unheard when asked toward the end of the gripping and essential new Canadian documentary, Russians at War .

Just a few days before Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova’s film was set to make its North American premiere at the Toronto I

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