Short Film / 24 Min. / 2025
Inspired by the events around the life and assassination of Ukrainian author and politician Lev Rebet, who was murdered in Munich exile in 1957 by the KGB, “critical condition” portrays the fates of the Ukrainian diaspora in the past and present.
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Cast:
Lev – Ihor Shulha
Dariia – Vita Smachelyuk
Vasyl – Sebastian Anton
Orysia – Lisa Moskalenko
Zynovij – Volodymyr Melnyk
KGB Agent – Yevgen Bondarskyy
KGB Vorgesetzter – Oleksandr Pozharskyi
Katya – Valeriia Berezovska
Lesya – Valeriia Kuzmenko
Crew:
Director and Scriptwriter – Mila Zhluktenko
Cinematographer – Tobias Blickle
Producer – Michael Kalb
Production Assistant – Adrian Roth
Production Designer – Leonie Lindner
Costume Designer – Kristina Kilian
Makeup and Hair – Alyssia Achille
Production Sound Mixer – Philip Hutter
Casting, 1st AD – Daniel Asadi Faezi
Editors – Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Music – Marja Burchard
Sound Design – Gerhard Auer, Philip Hutter
In cooperation with University of Television and Film Munich
and in coproduction with 
Bayerischen Rundfunk and arte
funded by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern.
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Press:
Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2025:
Format Court Kritik, 20.05.2025
kinokino (ab Min. 09:30), BR Fernsehen, 21.05.2025