The story of their disappearance and eventual recovery transfixed the global media. Vasarhelyi and Chin co-directed and produced the film with Colombian filmmaker Juan Camilo Cruz (“In Her Hands,” “Messi’s World Cup”) for National Geographic.
And remarkably, the film may not have been made at all had it not been for his co-director, the Bafta winner Juan Camilo Cruz, who crafted its central narrative from thousands of hours of footage shot by Ryzhykov before he put down his camera.
A Simple Soldier, a powerful feature doc from Ukrainian filmmaker Artem Ryzhykov and co-director Juan Camilo Cruz, has an impressive stable of producers behind it
