As It Was
5.9
Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year after the start of the war in Ukraine. Lera does not feel well in Berlin and makes an impulsive decision to go to Kyiv, for the first time during the war. On the way to Kyiv, she learns that her family is not in Kyiv, and will come only the next day. Therefore, she meets her friend Kyryl, with whom she spends the day, as she used to before the war. In the morning, Lera meets her mother and sister, and finally feels at home. But she still doubts whether she will stay in Kyiv or go back to Berlin.
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Cast
16 people
Valeria Berezovska
Lera
Also in
Forever-Forever
Anna
Kyrylo Zemlyanyi
Kyrylo
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Olena Korohod
Sofia Berezovska
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Under the Volcano
Damian Kocur
Dmitri Davydov
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Last Summer: Zombie Town
A Kiss Not for the Press
Marianna Luka
Sofiia Yelisieieva
Nikyta Melnik
Sergii Shakun
Kateryna Kovalyova
Iryna Abramova
Damian Kocur Director · Anastasia Solonevych Director
First release May 26, 2023 · Produced in Poland, Ukraine · Languages English, German, Ukrainian
Production
EXA Studio
Production
Lizart Film
Production
Poland · Ukraine
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Як це було
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
English · German · Ukrainian
Release dates
France · May 26, 2023
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
France
May 15, 2024 · TV · FR3 (Libre court)
Germany
May 17, 2024 · Premiere · Neisse Film Festival
Poland
September 18, 2023 · Premiere · Gdynia Polish Film Festival
October 7, 2023 · Premiere · Warsaw Film Festival
April 17, 2024 · Premiere · Ogólnopolski Festiwal Sztuki Filmowej "Prowincjonalia"
June 25, 2024 · Premiere · Lubuskie Lato Filmowe
July 29, 2024 · Premiere · Two Riversides Film and Art Festival
Slovakia
March 16, 2024 · Premiere · FebioFest
Ukraine
October 26, 2023 · Premiere · Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
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