is not really a film in the conventional sense. Nor is it really a documentary. It can best be described, as the filmmaker himself puts it in a filmed introduction, as “material.” That’s because the film is the result of an accident. It’s composed of 90 minutes of raw, unedited footage captured by a GoPro camera perched on the filmmaker’s helmet while he was serving in the Ukrainian military.
Senstsov wasn’t aware that he was filming during the battle that occurred last summer, only discovering the footage months later. He considered deleting it, but then decided that it served as a valuable document of war as it actually occurs. The 90 minutes of footage , which received minor post-production tweaks involving sound and color correction, serves as a visual document of modern trench warfare.
Not that we see any actual action in the film, which mainly shows Senstov — who commanded a unit and whose code name was “Grunt” — and his men hunkered down in a trench in a position known as “Real,” named after the Madrid football club. Since the camera is located on Sentsov’s head, we never really see him. But we do hear his gruff voice barking instructions to his men and into the radio as he serves as a human tripod. Their situation is perilous; as Senstov puts it, they’re “running out of ammo and people,” with several men wounded. They’re surrounded by Russian forces, and their location is periodically shelled as Senstov desperately attempts to arrange their evacuation.
The soldiers handle their situation with impressive stoicism and resignation, their impassive faces registering little panic as we hear such radio transmissions as “What’s our next move?” and “What’s the leadership saying?” Mostly they wait, and wait, and wait, for the help that’s a long time in coming. “The situation’s shitty. We’ll be coming to you now,” they eventually hear over the radio.
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