THE OTHER CHELSEA – A STORY FROM DONETSK
THE OTHER CHELSEA – A STORY FROM DONETSK
In the Donets Basin, the easternmost region of the Ukraine traditionally more inclined towards Russia than the West, orange is predominantly identified not as a colour of political symbolism, but as the home colour of FC Shakhtar Donetsk, the team that unexpectedly won the UEFA Cup in 2009. The club is characterised by contrasting worlds, with fans who live on the poverty line, in eternal fear of losing their livelihoods and a billionaire owner by the name of Rinat Akhmetov, together with his entourage from the pro-Russia “blue” party. Both chairman and fans feel unrepresented by the Orange Revolution, as well as political ongoings in Kiev as a whole.
A socio-political snapshot from the east of the Ukraine.
DigiBeta | Farbe / colour
Jakob Preuss
Eugen Schlegel, Pavel Kazantsev, Roman Yelensky, Maxim Kuphal-Potapenko, Philipp Gromov, Felix Korfmann
Oleg Goloveshkin
Animation: Stephan Flint Müller
Dominik Sprungala
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Jakob Preuss - born 1975 in Berlin. Studied law in Cologne and Paris, as well as European Studies in Warsaw. In addition to his work as a documentary film-maker, he has also worked as an election observer for the OSCE and IOM and spent a year working for “Reporters Without Borders” in the course of 2007-08.