{"podcast":{"title":"The Klassiki Podcast","slug":"the-klassiki-podcast-6921561","podcast_index_feed_id":6921561,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/klassiki/feed.xml","website_url":"https://klassiki.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18693909/Klassiki_Podcast_05_cannms.png","author":"Klassiki","episode_count":63,"summary":"Delve into the wide world of Eastern European film with the Klassiki Podcast. Featuring interviews, roundtable discussions, recorded essays, and more, we take you beyond the headlines to explore the past, present, and future of this fascinating region. Klassiki is a streaming platform with a difference. Dedicated to cinema from Eastern Europe, we offer subscribers an ever-evolving library of classic and contemporary titles, as well as highlighting recent releases and festival favourites – meaning we’re the only place to discover the best new voices in eastern European film. Subscribers get access to all this, as well as filmmaker interviews, video essays and introductions, programme notes, and much more. Sign up for a free 7-day trial at klassiki.online.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-22T12:19:41.985493+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-klassiki-podcast-6921561"},"episode":{"title":"Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands","slug":"roman-bondarchuk-s-ukrainian-badlands","published_at":"2026-02-23T08:53:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-klassiki-podcast-6921561/roman-bondarchuk-s-ukrainian-badlands","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-klassiki-podcast-6921561","url":"https://klassiki.podbean.com/e/roman-bondarchuk-s-ukrainian-badlands/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8ht5mwdrh8cdt79m/Bondarchuk_edit_mixdown8d2t1.mp3","summary":"For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for a profile of the Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk, whose deadpan, absurdist comedies cut through the myth-making around his country by investigating the “no man’s land” of his native Kherson region. Bondarchuk’s recent feature The Editorial Office was completed during the full-scale invasion by Russia and speaks with particular clarity to the challenges that Ukraine was facing before the war and will face after it. Read the original piece here and watch Bondarchuk’s 2018 comedy Volcano on Klassiki now. Get in touch: podcast@klassiki.online Sign up for a free 7-day trial at klassiki.online.","meta_description":"For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for a profile of the Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk, whose…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":961,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-klassiki-podcast-6921561/episodes/roman-bondarchuk-s-ukrainian-badlands/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-klassiki-podcast-6921561/roman-bondarchuk-s-ukrainian-badlands.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}