Facade Colour: Blue

Name: Facade Colour: Blue
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-03-23
Duration: 22 min
Rating: 7.5

2019 · 0h 22m · Documentary

IMDb 7.5

Watch this tonight if you're hungry for a unique story about art, architecture, and fighting the good fight against soulless development. It's a solid 7.5 that'll inspire you with one remarkable 90-year-old's last stand—exactly the kind of documentary that sticks with you.

Plot

Florian Yuriev is an architect, artist, violin maker, theoretician and poet. At the age of 90 he has to master another, completely new skill. In order to save his architectural project, Kyiv’s ‘Flying Saucer’, from turning into part of a shopping mall, Florian Yuriev launches a campaign against the arbitrary power of developers in the capital.

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