Мирні люди

Russian soldiers made thousands of unauthorized phone calls from the battlefield in Ukraine to their family and friends in Russia. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian special services regularly intercepted and posted their private conversations on the Internet. Fragment by fragment, the voices of Russians open the eyes of the world not only to the course of the so-called "special operation", but also to the process of dehumanization and demoralization of its perpetrators: from being influenced by heroic illusions to complete disappointment and loss of reason, from looting to the commission of the most terrible war crimes. Based on the voices of the invaders and their mothers and wives, the film contrasts them with the "new normal" life of Ukrainians and their touching gestures of resistance to violence. "Peaceful People" intertwines these two opposite worlds in dizzying emotional tension. A unique cinematic experience and historical document that raises important questions about the nature of Russian imperialism, the role of propaganda in the invasion, and the collective responsibility of Russians.