He has trouble adapting to his new life until he meets Katya (Bileka), previously an archaeologist who now works as a humanitarian activist for the Black Tulip Mission, a volunteer organization exhuming and identifying the war dead. Sergiy then finds himself in a new job driving a water truck and delivering to areas where pollution from the war has made local sources unpotable. Ivan commits suicide in a smelting pot, and the factory is shut down shortly afterwards due to economic liberalization rendering it nonprofitable. Sergiy and Ivan still train much like the war has not ended, dressing in combat uniforms and competing in high-stress target shooting. He works at a smelter with another veteran and friend, Ivan, both ostracized by other workers blaming them for fighting in the war that devastated the region. It takes place in 2025, one year after the end of the war with Russia. The story follows Sergiy ( Rymaryk) a retired soldier with PTSD trying to navigate life in Eastern Ukraine. Atlantis received new attention three years after its release with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which the film had fictionally depicted the aftermath of. It was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. It received positive critical reviews overall and won the award for Best Film in the Horizons section of the 76th Venice International Film Festival. It tells the story of a former soldier struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder in a near-future Ukraine, following a war with Russia. Atlantis ( Ukrainian: Атлантида) is a 2019 Ukrainian dystopian post-apocalyptic film directed by Valentyn Vasyanovych.
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