7.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama • 2025 • 102 min
Grey Bees (2025)
Grey Bees (2025)
Overview
January, 2022. Long-time neighbours and miners Serhiich and Pashka live in a small village in the Donbas. Their lives would be unremarkable were it not for the fact that they are located in a grey zone at the heart of the conflict between Russian and Ukrainian forces. They are neutral arbiters, frequently hosting members of one army or the other, each fully aware of what their neighbour is doing. But as fighting continues and resources diminish, both men know they must connect with a ravaged world beyond their homes.
Starring Cast
Viktor Zhdanov • Vladimir Yamnenko • Maksym Burlaka
Where to watch
Prime VideoRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.7
Overview
January, 2022. Long-time neighbours and miners Serhiich and Pashka live in a small village in the Donbas. Their lives would be unremarkable were it not for the fact that they are located in a grey zone at the heart of the conflict between Russian and Ukrainian forces. They are neutral arbiters, frequently hosting members of one army or the other, each fully aware of what their neighbour is doing. But as fighting continues and resources diminish, both men know they must connect with a ravaged world beyond their homes.
Starring Cast
Viktor Zhdanov • Vladimir Yamnenko • Maksym Burlaka
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
Grey Bees follows a Ukrainian beekeeper and his Russian neighbor as they endure artillery fire and dwindling resources in a deserted Donbas village caught between frontlines, highlighting their uneasy reliance on each other when a Russian sniper arrives and forces an unavoidable choice.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
Grey Bees centers on Ukrainian actors portraying characters in a Donbas war story drawn from a local novel, with no recasting or thematic emphasis on identity politics.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
Grey Bees centers on a divorced beekeeper estranged from his wife and daughter, who forms a reluctant new romantic connection while navigating wartime neighborly ties over kinship bonds.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
Grey Bees contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on its principal story without engaging queer identities or related topics.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
Grey Bees centers on a beekeeper navigating the Donbas conflict and offers no transgender characters or themes.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Grey Bees adapts Andrey Kurkov's novel as a portrait of a solitary beekeeper navigating the Donbas conflict, preserving the established genders of all characters from the source material.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Grey Bees adapts Andrey Kurkov's novel about Ukrainian villagers in the Donbas grey zone. The lead roles of Serhiich and Pashka are played by Ukrainian actors Viktor Zhdanov and Vladimir Yamnenko, consistent with the source characters' established Ukrainian identity and setting.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.1
8.3
Critic Ratings
N/A
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