‘Everyone was completely terrified’: the British film-maker who helped Ukrainian crew escape war

Art reflected life when Hugh Welchman of Breakthru Films started work on an animation of The Peasants, set during Russia’s occupation of Poland

Artists working on The Peasants, from left: Anna Dobrodiy, Tetiana Ocheredko, Ilona Ryzhenko, Dorota Kobiela (director), L.U.C (film’s composer), Anzhela Horodnyk, Kateryna Ocheredko, Mariia Kovtunovych, Natalia Sluka.
Artists working on The Peasants, from left: Anna Dobrodiy, Tetiana Ocheredko, Ilona Ryzhenko, Dorota Kobiela (director), L.U.C (film’s composer), Anzhela Horodnyk, Kateryna Ocheredko, Mariia Kovtunovych, Natalia Sluka. Photograph: BreakThru Films

Making a movie is hard enough at the best of times, but an Oscar-winning British film-maker and his crew found themselves with a particularly daunting challenge.

Hugh Welchman of Breakthru Films, which has painting animation studios in Poland, Lithuania and Serbia, opened another in Kyiv in January – only to have to close it weeks later and help its artists flee to safety after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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