Michelle Hazyan. “All my meetings in Ukraine have faith in mankind.”

On February 28, Michel Zazankius will be a candidate of three Césars The most expensive goods Animated film, original music and customization. But today is a bookstore and for a civic obligation he speaks. At the request of a friend, the film director left for Ukraine to meet those who are fighting for their freedom and their territory.

In Ukrainian notebooks, The author tells his experience in the field, but especially fades to paint literally and figuratively portraits of men and women who have not imagined in this situation. The benefits of the book, published by “Allale”, will be fully donated to a unified platform that works for the country’s defense and reconstruction.

Madame Figaro. – What was your link to Ukraine?
Michelle Hazanavicius. – My grandmother was born in Ukraine, with which I had passed through these business trips, but she left young and, in fact, I had no special dependence to the country. But when the war reached there, the national solidarity was caused by national solidarity, which I naturally joined. To raise funds, I organized a auction of cinema facilities. Tom Hanks gave me a typewriter, Jean-Paul Rapeno, Kirano, Pedro Almodontal, Photos, Hollenki. He offered to be a ambassador, I made five trips to Ukraine and I sympathized with the singer, which is now known in the army the unity of cultural forces in the army. He took me to different cities to meet men and women during the war.

Why make it a book and not a documentary?
When I’m doing on the movie, it must agree with a clean desire of a film director. I don’t want to make anything. Moreover, the book lets me not have to pay the team to turn around, then mix it with my interlocutors alone. Nor else else else else to do elsewhere. I just wanted to create a project that allows me to bring money to earth, and above all, give them a tribute to them, voice and face them.

Did you have a problem finding your place?
For those who are not journalists, it is always difficult to “stay” but also to criticize. But I didn’t want to have anything to win this project, I put myself as a simple observer, and I think the Ukrainians understood it. During the time I found my signs, and according to the people whose profiles were very diverse. Young people, not so young, career soldiers, called every meeting I tried to distinguish between what they are doing. Everyone lives this situation in a very way, they are done if possible. I have seen the boys easier to decrease death and violence and the panic of others as a great state of magnitude.

When the war reached there, the national solidarity was caused by the national solidarity, which I naturally joined

Michelle Hazanavicius:

What have you learned during these trips?
I have never been in war, I didn’t even make my army. Reformed to P4. I understood certain basic things on the daily life of the conflict. I was also hit by the dignity of this people, this young woman, for example, who does not support the status of refugees and compassion that “has fallen victims.”

Feared?
No, but I went safely, with all the permission of the army. And then the man is a sponge, and I don’t avoid the rule. One day a rocket fire was. I was clearly interested in what I was doing there, but as everyone calmed around me, I panicked. I stopped at the others. On the train, on the external journey, I had a way of fear when I saw all the soldiers on the front. I was never surrounded by tragedy.

What mental state have you returned?
Worried and enlightened. These men and women were like you and I was still a short time ago. For the first time, I went to Kiev, I found the same European city, which was like London, Paris, Berlin. “It’s far away, it won’t happen to us.” But when, suddenly, people with fears have the same humor and the same clothes, like you, look at the same row to eat, a kinship and similarity. The war is parallel to the universe, which we cannot think, but when I see our similarities, I say that it can be an option for us. It is anxiety. It is obvious that in all these unexpectedly, all my meetings with these people who have proven in the heroic situation have also made faith in mankind.

I was hit by the dignity of this people

Michelle Hazanavicius:

Is this commitment with this project related to the history of your family?
Without my search or realizing, there is a monitoring red thread in my journey, the persecution and stability of peoples. Search: On Chechnya, tuez to all.The documentary about the Rwandan genocide, which I have co-authored, is obvious to the conflict in Ukraine and obvious. The most expensive of goods, Who is talking about the show that my family survived … Many of my projects, including Eststruction Or Artist: For example, it also has in common. The heroes appear with the world they face, which goes faster and which no longer understand. This is a little something we live at this moment.