Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die

2017 [UKRAINIAN]

Action / Drama / War

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 8093 8.1K

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Director

Akhtem Seitablaev Photo
Akhtem Seitablaev

Top cast

Oleg Drach Photo
Oleg Drach as Ofitser shtabu
Igor Kirilchatenko Photo
Igor Kirilchatenko as Medic 2
Yaroslav Bezkorovayny Photo
Yaroslav Bezkorovayny as Boyets 1
Igor Salimonov Photo
Igor Salimonov as Separ

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Ska4Live 8 / 10

For those who has saved our present and future

Ok, so to be true, the real mark from me - is about 8.4-.8.5 Before filming every movie, each filmmaker should thought, for what type of audience this film will be. Because, as we all known, in one country movie can be successful, in another - hated. It all depends from history of each country, on its current political, finance and economic situation. Every country has its tragic and dramatic moments. At the end of every such tragic moment: transport incidents with victims, nature cataclysm, political protests, revolutions, terrorist attack or war, people become united and works together. Just to support each other, share their resources with others, or to solve problems which was caused by 'others'. Very often, directors running by their emotions and thus make their work too screwed up, chaotic and difficult to perceive by ordinary viewers. And probably because of that, many of movie filmed right after important events, are becomes quite bad or lets called them, weak. The reason is very simple, authors (writers) do their jobs only following emotions and fillings. They doesn't spend many time for analyzing history before 'drama' was taking the place, they looks at situation from only one point of conflict, for additional materials they use data from Wikipedia or short interviews of victims\friends\real persons who been involved. "Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die" doesn't have any of problems mentioned above. Events, personages, interior and places, some monologues and dialogs, all of this was taken from real peoples who risked their lives and who were killed or was wounded during the Battle of Donetsk airport (real name: Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport) at autumn 2014 -Winter 2015. Those Ukrainians who served there was named 'Cyborgs'. First time that names were given by pro-russian separatists, because of specific how Ukrainian soldiers fights, how they used this building and non-human conditions where they lived. But lets return back to movie. It doesn't have one main antagonist or group. It is more complicated. We having: pro-russian separatist and Russian military forces from one side who tries to knock out&occupy airport as main strategic object; also Ukrainian general command, who follows only International 'peaceful' plans, his orders brings mess into situation; some of 'Cyborgs' has psychological issues caused, of course, by heavy military actions. These are main factors which create atmosphere, idea and probably this is the main line of the movie. Permanent fight with physical enemy, enemy in face of your command and with 'another yourself'. Director choose not to follow only one protagonist personage, he decided to provide each one of the them enough time to told their story. This is why, you are really understand actions and behaviors of every character and start to sympathize and empathize everyone. Dialogs and lines are clearly the best thing! First of all, this is not fully Ukrainian speaking product. As it was in real life, soldiers are speaking between each others on 2 languages, Ukrainian and Russian. Second, there is many philosophical and social historical speeches between characters. Movie just full of them, it gives the audience (especially international) the answers of what is the cause of this war? Why everything was taking place? What is the main motives of pro-russ separatist? Why so many young and old guys from Ukraine come together at this Airport, and what drives them to do what they are doing? Harsh\strong words are in use very often (like it should be on war!), but I believe, in real, it was way much more . Actions. If you are filming military film please be ready to spend money, a lot of money, for battle scenes. The battle scenes in this movie are very weak. If you go on Youtube and saw by yourself, what was the battles in airport, you will completely agree with me. So this one, is the main minus of the movie. Actors. I can't say anything bad about them. They are good or they normal, depend of characters they playing. And I believe there is more problem with script and lines. Probably this is very small minus, also. Overall "Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die" is the best Ukrainian movie of last years. Seriously. If you check previous movies made in Ukraine you will find that all products can be split on 3 category: historical dramas, modern comedy's, modern documentary, and some art-house projects made special for festivals. 'Cyborgs' it is like #MustSee for every citizen. The reason is to not to forget, about those heroes who has spent 242 days in strategic ruins, those who has lived, defend and died in non-human conditions, in order to save our present, our way of living and protect the country from 'lovely older brother'.
Reviewed by chakpronoris 8 / 10

I put a truly objective assessment.

Because the film is shot on a relatively small budget, then many things can not be fully disclosed because of a lack of money. For example: the battle for the New Terminal and other clashes with the terrorists. As for what does not depend on the big money, this is a story which is very good, and especially the dialogue of the actors is so lively that they deserve 10 points. Operator work in places is lame, but the picture itself is very good. The film makes you think after watching because of its multi-faceted, because in the dialogs you can agree with all the characters in the film. For those who do not know the details of the conflict between Ukrainian troops and terrorists and Russian military, the film may seem unsaid, but you can also watch documentaries on the theme of the Donetsk airport. In the Ukrainian cinematograph this is one of the best records made in the history of independence. I advise you to view it all, very deep dialogues and a story about real Ukrainian heroes.
Reviewed by agof 8 / 10

slava ukraine

Ukrainian and russian are not the same language. And while we can understand each other a lot, especially people who have a rich vocabulary, i still had to use russian subtitles as an aid.Well, the film has characters speaking to each other in different languages with no translation or language barrier. I love when movies do that. A chunk of ukrainian population actually can't speak ukrainian and that doesn't automatically mean they support putler.So far the cities that putler carpet bombs are mostly entirely russian-speaking, and just ten days ago the populations were supporting russia and some of them even putler himself. Heck, even the current president couldn't speak ukrainian when he was elected. I consider his victory was partly ensured by him being a compromise candidate and as an act of revanchism from the east leaning part of the population. Well, no division anymore, i doubt ukraine was ever as unified as now in the current borders.There's a saying, stalin got a country with "sokha" and left (in a puddle of piss) it with an atomic bomb. Well, putler got a country that was leading the whole CIS region, with a ginormous cultural market niche of russian-speakers and economical ties with all neighbours, with local homegrown IT companies that crushed in the local market the world leaders like Google, Amazon, Facebook and others, and he will leave (hopefully on the 6th of march, in a puddle of piss) it norther than korea.Dunno about translations, that would make all the characters speak the same language, but the original audio is this movie's strength if you speak russian or ukrainian. The cinematography is a bit better than just solid, but this isn't an outright action film. It's more of a war drama and most of the runtime it's about soldiers and volunteers participating in philosophical discussions on the merits of humanity, nation, culture and other relevant stuff. And they do it good. I didn't expect the writing to be this strong and the actors sell it.All in all, it's kinda a great movie.
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