Viktor
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Viktor Korotovskyi rallied to join the military but was rejected due to his deafness. Instead, he became a war photographer. Join Viktor on the frontlines in this wholly immersive and terrifying documentary from producer Darren Aronofsky.
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Saturday, May 17, 2025
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Monday, May 19, 2025
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Monday, May 26 - Sunday, June 1, 2025
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Ferociously loud yet deeply silent, this new documentary from seasoned war photographer and multi-award-winning director Olivier Sarbil presents an artfully subjective character study of the titular Viktor, set against the beginning days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Young, Deaf, and struggling to find his place in the war efforts, Viktor longs to be a warrior, but his repeated attempts to enlist are denied because of his hearing loss. Living with his mother in Kharkiv, Viktor eventually convinces the local army to let him volunteer as a photographer.
The sound design team behind the Oscar®-winning Sound of Metal once again creates subjectivity through soundtrack, giving the audience fascinating aural glimpses into Viktor’s acoustic landscape. The black and white footage lends an immersive, artistic, theatrical spin to the documentary, as visual language and soundscape grammar indirectly evolve through the relationship between director and subject. (The two share many unique similarities: hearing loss, black and white photojournalism, compositional cinematography.)
Darren Aronofsky produces this layered reflection on the brutalities of war, on the resilience of the human spirit in a world thrust into chaos and violence.
—Emily Sawan
- Director: Olivier Sarbil
- Country: Denmark, Ukraine, France, USA
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 89 min.
- Producer: Olivier Sarbil, Darren Aronofsky, Dylan Golden, Brendan Naylor, Sigrid Dyekjær, Philippe Levasseur
- Screenplay: Olivier Sarbil
- Cinematographers: Olivier Sarbil
- Editors: Atanas Georgiev
- Music: Peter Albrechtsen (Sound Designer)
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: On The President's Orders (2019)
- Language: Russian, Russian Sign Language, Ukrainian
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- Format: DCP
- International Sales: Cinephil