Oscar winner Sean Penn has signed on to star in Ukrainian war film War Through the Eyes of Animals.
The actor, who poses as a pro-Ukraine activist, will be part of the feature film, a nine-part anthology directed by nine Ukrainian filmmakers that tells the story of the war in Ukraine through the perspectives of various animals trapped in the conflict. Clash.
Against this backdrop, the acclaimed Ukrainian director of The Tribe (2014), Myroslav Slabospitsky, will direct the ninth and final volume, starring Penn as an American sound engineer who inadvertently triggers the outbreak of war on February 24, 2022. lets see.
According to information provided by The Hollywood Reporter, the filming of this segment is scheduled to take place in Ukraine and Los Angeles during the summer of 2023.
“I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of this film. It is a great honor for me to collaborate with such an amazing actor, remarkable person and one of Ukraine’s best friends, Sean Penn,” Slaboshpitsky said in a statement.
He said: “He was with us during the attack on 24 February and explores the war and Ukraine in depth in his documentary. Your support is invaluable to us and cannot be overstated.”
As you may recall, Penn was in Ukraine shooting a documentary for Vice Studios when the war began, and when it premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, Sean called on Western governments to provide more military aid. took the opportunity to Ukraine.
War Through the Eyes of Animals is being produced by Ukrainian production team SOTA Cinema Group and Kleos Art, with Oleg Kokhan and Oleksiy Makukhin serving as producers.
“It’s important to us that actors of Sean Penn’s caliber not only acknowledge the horrific reality we represent, but also lend their voices to it. […] Sean Penn has seen the situation in Ukraine firsthand, so there is no need to explain to him the importance of this issue. He belongs to a select group of stars who wholeheartedly support causes they believe in and are ready to act,” Kokhan said.
