‘We are just ordinary people who want to live in our country,’ says President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in activist actor’s forthcoming documentary
The first trailer has been released for Superpower, Sean Penn’s documentary about the Ukraine war, co-directed by Penn and Aaron Kaufman.
Superpower includes scenes with Zelenskiy in Kyiv when the first bombs were dropped on the city by Russian forces in February 2022. “We are just ordinary people who want to live in our country,” Zelenskiy tells Penn in his bunker.to shoot the film, but it also shows him discussing conflict more widely. The unity he witnessed, he tells the US conservative commentator Sean Hannity, “makes you realise what we’ve been missing”.
The film is positioned as an unapologetically cheerleading celebration of the Ukrainian president, whom Penn describes as “the embodiment of [a] hope” he had been searching for. Penn also speaks to veterans from the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea, the widow of a man who died at Maidan, as well as children, teachers, people who have lost their homes, musicians and politicians. He also speaks to those undergoing military training, including young female recruits.
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