Hello you IMDB reviewers! I have never did a review myself and right after starting the movie on HBO Max, I went to imdb and checked the people's opinion on it, and I was surprised to see that there are none. Thinking nothing about it, I went back to the movie.

Knowing what happened there during the last 2 years, I knew what to expect.

Now...keep in mind that as a father of two, I'm seeing this maybe with different lens, but after 7 minutes into the film, I had to pause and ask myself if I can actually do this, as in watch it. Seeing all the life stories from different people, praising the city and it's city life, it's quality of life and how things started to look better, one can only sit and wait for the tragedy to hit the wiewer so hard, that you just realize that it's not a blockbuster action movie where even if you enjoy seeing headshots, you KNOW that at the end of the day, everyone is safe and that those are stunts. You know that the city is not raised to the ground and it's just special effects.

This is different because you know that at the end of making it, people won't cheer with a glass of wine for a job well done, cash the check and see about their lives. You know that those that fell as victims, they are real. The loss is real. The pain is real. And what's worse is that's irreversible.

Now, I'll pull myself together and see the rest of the movie.

Documentaries - unlike Marvel movies - are less watched, but more valuable.

It is time to accept the thesis that ordinary people suffer in war, not the political "elites".

In this respect, the film is a wonderful documentary about the suffering of ordinary Ukrainians. And at the same time - an accusation against the political elites who did not respect the Minsk agreements (as Merkel and Orban admitted).

Additional information about the sufferings of the people living there can be obtained from other documentaries, for example from "Children of Donbass".

The usefulness of "Mariupol: The People's Story" also lies in the fact that it provokes reflection on how to achieve a peaceful world without wars, based on laws and international treaties, and not on imperialist conquests.

Make love, not war!

Rating: 9.0.

The war in Ucraine began 9 years ago, when the Western-backed coup d'état took place in Kiev on February 23, 2014 - which was also directed against Russia, among other things - it triggered certain processes in what was then eastern Ukraine. These marked the beginning of the so-called "Russian Spring": a series of pro-Russia demonstrations in Crimea and Novorossiya - a largely historical term for an area comprising eight regions of southeastern Ukraine.

Then came May 2 in Odessa, and a week later the lesser-known massacre on May 9 in Mariupol, when Nazi militia, now designated the National Guard, entered the city and fired into the crowd.

Since the end of the fighting in Mariupol against the neo-Nazi regiment Azov, the locals of Mariupol, now a city within the Russian Federation, have been trying to return to a peaceful life.