The Fight for Democracy in Bernard-Henri Levy’s “Why Ukraine”

“Ukraine can not lose,” Bernard-Henri Lévy says at the end of his powerful new film about the war in Ukraine, “But it must be helped to win.” And this film, Why Ukraine co-directed with Marc Roussel and co-written with Gilles Herzog, produced by Francois Margolin with Emily Hamilton and Natalia Gryvniak, which is being screened at the United Nations on October 27 and will be released in the US later this year, is in no small part dedicated to that effort and to making the case that in the bat…