Film Library
Demonstration Lesson, 2012  

Original title: Vidkrytyi urok
Copyright:  the Ukrainian State Film Agency, 2012.
Format: feature narrative, drama
Carrier: DVD
Color: yes
Length: 18 min.
Original language: Ukrainian, some English, and Russian.
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director, script writer: Nataliya Mashtaler
Camera and sound: Oleksander Mashtaler
Editors: Nataliya Mashtaler, Oleksander Mashtaler, Oleksander Buzko
Producers: Svitlana Zinov'yeva and Hennadii Kofman

Film cast: featuring Ukrainian police officers and Euro-2012 fans in the cities of Lviv and Kyiv.

Synopsis

For the first time since independence Ukrainian police were faced with the need to cater to a different kind of people – thousands of fans coming to the European Soccer Championship-2012. Demonstration Lesson is a humorous record of how the Ukrainian police prepared for this historic encounter and how both the police and the European fans handled the challenge using the abundance of good will and friendliness to compensate for the absence of a common language.

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