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Cohen Media Group recently announced that it has acquired all U.S. rights to Bernard-Henri Lévy’s SLAVA UKRAINI, the globally renowned philosopher and activist’s eye-opening film that examines the ravages of war in the Ukraine. SLAVA UKRAINI will open in select theaters on May 3, 2023 and nationwide on digital/VOD platforms on May 5, 2023.

The deal, announced by Cohen Media Group Chairman and CEO Charles S. Cohen, was negotiated by CMG Senior Vice President Robert Aaronson and Renan Artukmac, Deputy Senior Vice President, International Sales for France Télévisions.

Bernard-Henri Levy is a French philosopher, filmmaker, activist and the author of more than 45 books who has been described by The New York Times as “an intellectual adventurer who brings publicity to unfashionable political causes.” His new documentary, SLAVA UKRAINI, takes viewers to the heart of the war against Ukraine through a war diary made in 2022.

Following the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine from the frontline, Lévy bears witness to the ravages of war through the testimonies of soldiers, with portraits of struggling civilians. SLAVA UKRAINI is a heart-wrenching ode to the courageous civil society and armed forces of the Ukraine people. It is a passionate call to action for the West to continue delivering support to Ukraine with increasing urgency and solidarity.

The film follows Lévy on the ground from the first days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. It documents first-hand the extraordinary Ukrainian counteroffensive in September 2022 until the aftermath of the liberation of Kherson at the end of 2022. Lévy and his team move all around the country, embedded with the Ukrainian special forces, filming Bakhmut, Lyman, Izium, Kharkiv; standing in solidarity with the citizens of Kyiv during attacks on civilian infrastructure; showing the evacuation of civilians in Donbas; following the heroes in action near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, descending underground into the mines where workers are on a frontline, and more.

Since the actual start of this long war in 2014, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been traveling to Ukraine to stand with the Ukrainian people. He addressed hundreds of thousands on the Maidan in 2014, represented the President of France for Babi Yar commemorations, met Zelensky before he became President, was embedded with troops in 2020 and gathered a rare quantity of testimonies. SLAVA UKRAINI is his second film on the war against Ukraine since 2022.

Lévy made this new film, SLAVA UKRAINI, to remind Western audiences that this war is also our war and that Putin’s barbarism is an attack on the entire civilized world.

SLAVA UKRAINI, co-directed by Marc Roussel (The Will to See), combines stirring and shocking footage of conditions in the devastated eastern villages of Ukraine. The film gives voice to the citizens and soldiers of a defiant and resisting Ukraine. For Lévy, the real authors of this film are the Ukrainians whom he followed during the filming of the movie and to whom the entire civilized world is indebted.

Charles S. Cohen said, “Cohen Media Group takes great pride in presenting these important and personal films that Bernard-Henri Lévy has generously and faithfully undertaken to alert the world to the atrocities and struggles that have fallen upon the Ukrainian people.”

CMG’s Robert Aaronson said, “We are proud to bring SLAVA UKRAINI to a wide audience and help spread its important and urgent message.”

Bernard-Henri Lévy said: “I am happy to bring to the US, all over the country, fresh and new images of the large-scale massacres committed by Russia and of the heroism of Ukrainian defenders.”

The New York Times, after the Premieres in Paris and Kyiv, said: “The film (Lévy’s second about the conflict there) has garnered praise for its unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war.”

Lévy will be making personal appearances on the following dates in the below cities:

Wednesday, May 3 – NYC – Quad Cinema

Thursday, May 4 – NYC – United Nations

Saturday, May 6 – LA – Landmark Westwood

Monday, May 8 – Chicago – Landmark Century Centre

Tuesday, May 9 – Philadelphia – Landmark Ritz Five

Thursday, May 11 – Washington DC – Landmark E Street