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Why we should read the Oscar-winning documentary about Mariupol as a tribute to The Spanish Earth, Joris Ivens’s Civil War classic. Watching Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days in Mariupol, which shows the Russian bombing of the Ukrainian city at the beginning of the ongoing war, I thought: “I’ve seen this movie before, if with a...
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