Don't Ask Me If I Killed
Helena Maksyom’s personal record of the war in Ukraine, filmed over more than a thousand days.When the invasion began, she was a filmmaker with no experience of combat.She volunteered, learned to treat the wounded, learned to fight, and, over time, became an officer leading others through the same fire that first consumed her.
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Helena Maksyom’s personal record of the war in Ukraine, filmed over more than a thousand days. When the invasion began, she was a filmmaker with no experience of combat. She volunteered, learned to treat the wounded, learned to fight, and, over time, became an officer leading others through the same fire that first consumed her.
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- Release date
- Jun 8, 2026
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
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- Language
- English, Ukrainian
- Country
- Germany, Netherlands
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