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Winter on Fire
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Embodying the true story of the Ukrainian revolution during 2013 and 2014 when a group of students go in a peaceful protest that turns to be a violent revolution that has many demands, including the resignation of the elected president, in order to overcome his oppression.
Embodying the true story of the Ukrainian revolution during 2013 and 2014 when a group of students go in a peaceful protest that turns to be a violent revolution that has many demands, including the resignation of the elected president, in order to overcome his oppression.
Actors:
Roman Savelyev,
His Holiness The Patriarch of Kyiv and Ukraine Filaret,
Olena Stadnik,
Katya Korniyko,
Catherine Ashton,
Vladimir Kugilyov,
Kamaliya,
Gagik Nigoyan,
Said Ismagilov,
Yuriy Krivenko,
Vladimir Makarevich,
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Roman Savelyev
His Holiness The Patriarch of Kyiv and Ukraine Filaret
Olena Stadnik
Katya Korniyko
Catherine Ashton
Vladimir Kugilyov
Kamaliya
18 May 1977, Step, Olovyanninskiy rayon, Chitinskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Zabaykalskiy kray, Russia]
Gagik Nigoyan
Said Ismagilov
Yuriy Krivenko
Vladimir Makarevich
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Evgeny Afineevsky
Evgeny Afineevsky
21 October 1972, Kazan, Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]
Country:
United States, United Kingdom
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January 11, 2016
The toughness and determination of these Ukrainian people is very inspiring. However, at the end of the film, it is noted that many times more people have died since the revolution in the following Russian-Ukrainian conflicts.
October 14, 2015
Being able to bear witness firsthand to this three-month struggle is an incredible privilege, albeit a heartbreaking one.
October 06, 2015
Winter on Fire's thrilling rebellion is neither the beginning nor the end, but it is at least a truly heartening middle.
January 21, 2016
This is a heavy documentary where the director and his team became actual war correspondants... you can't miss it. [Full review in Spanish]
October 24, 2016
Winter on Fire omits key facts, which results in an audience whose understanding of Ukraine's history, politics, regions, sociological makeup, and languages is extremely limited (or nonexistent) receiving a one-sided view of developments in Ukraine.
February 11, 2016
Plays out like a harrowingly bloody, real-life "Les Miserables."
October 08, 2015
"Winter on Fire" never takes its eye off the story's underlying and very dramatic theme, and that would be nothing less than revolution.
February 17, 2016
This is what a revolution in the 21st century looks like. Spoiler: The power of ridicule when Facebook journalists are watching is vast.
October 09, 2015
Though the film is limited by a point of view that's too polemically reductive, the idealistic, difficult, sometimes lethal struggles it covers are undeniably revelatory and moving.
July 10, 2016
The act of gathering these narratives into one place is of obviously clear value. But that's the starting point of journalism, not the end.
October 08, 2015
Modern technology may not yet be able to capture the smell of gunpowder and tear gas, but Mr. Afineevsky takes the viewer closer to the action than might have seemed possible.

