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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dalya Alberge

‘Everyone was completely terrified’: the British film-maker who helped Ukrainian crew escape war

Artists working on The Peasants, from left: Anna Dobrodiy, Tetiana Ocheredko, Ilona Ryzhenko, Dorota Kobiela (director), L.U.C (film’s composer), Anzhela Horodnyk, Kateryna Ocheredko, Mariia Kovtunovych, Natalia Sluka.
Artists working on The Peasants, from left: Anna Dobrodiy, Tetiana Ocheredko, Ilona Ryzhenko, Dorota Kobiela (director), L.U.C (film’s composer), Anzhela Horodnyk, Kateryna Ocheredko, Mariia Kovtunovych, Natalia Sluka. Photograph: BreakThru Films

Making a movie is hard enough at the best of times, but an Oscar-winning British film-maker and his crew found themselves with a particularly daunting challenge.

Hugh Welchman of Breakthru Films, which has painting animation studios in Poland, Lithuania and Serbia, opened another in Kyiv in January – only to have to close it weeks later and help its artists flee to safety after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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