the Kyiv Files
In Ukraine, the Soviet KGB archive with countless files containing reports of observations, has been made accessible to the public. What happens to you, once you find out that the state has been watching you for years?
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When the KGB Archive in Kyiv was opened to the public in 2017, individuals were able to read what the KGB had written about them. As an ex-KGB agent said, “The less you know, the better you sleep”, but the incomprehensible things that had happened to people had now come to light. This film touches on three of these stories, one of which is the unbelievable file of Regine, who followed her Ukrainian parents to France after the war. In the 1960s, Regine had gone to look for her cousin in Lviv, where she met and fell in love with a young man named Bogdan who spoke French. She later learned that he was a KGB agent who was tasked with spying on Regine and was even married. In her older age, Regine had never once doubted Bogdan’s love, which made the KGB file a huge shock to her. Set not in the far-off past and with Russia’s ongoing imperialism today, this film serves as an accusation toward Russian operations and questionable actions. (CHUN Jinsu)
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Frank van den ENGEL⎜frank@zeppers.nl
Walter STOKMAN
