Mantas Kvedaravičius was a 45-year-old documentary filmmaker from Lithuania. In 2016, he shot a film “Mariupolisabout the war in Donbas. This documentary is called “a human story on the background of meaningful historical events”; it got international recognition at the Berlin Film Festival.
“He hasn’t made the sequel to the film about Mariupol. A story of a talented director and extraordinary person, Mantas Kvedaravičius, should become the basis for the film to be made in his memory,” wrote Albina Lvutina, a Ukrainian reporter.
During the great war in Ukraine, he worked in Mariupol, besieged by the Russian, to shoot the continuation of “Mariupolis”. That’s where Mantas Kvedaravičius was killed. The Russian military took the director captive. Then, they shot him dead and threw his body away. Mantas’s wife did an extraordinary action — she managed to find his body in Mariupol under shelling and take him to his native Lithuania.
Rest in peace!
A story from the instagram of the Victims of russia channel.
