The Hamlet Syndrome (2022)

• 74%
• 2022
• Documentary
• War
• Elwira Niewiera
• Piotr Rosołowski
• Oksana Cherkashyna
• Rodion Shuygin-Grekalov
• Katlia Kotliarova

Five young Ukrainians discuss life following the Maidan Revolution of 2014. Not all fought in the Russian-Ukrainian war, but it, regardless, shattered their life plans. Representing 'Generation Maidan', they face the question of how to cope with experiences of violence, how to go on. A local theatre director produces Hamlet, wherein they can use Shakespeare's tragic character as a mirror and face their traumas onstage. For them, 'to be or not to be' is not simply text but an existential dilemma with no clear answer.