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Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

  • 20152015
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  • 1h 42m
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Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)
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A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President... Read allA documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.

IMDb RATING
8.3/10
19K
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  • Director
    • Evgeny Afineevsky
  • Writer
    • Den Tolmor
  • Stars
    • Bishop Agapit
    • Catherine Ashton
    • Serhii Averchenko
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  • Director
    • Evgeny Afineevsky
  • Writer
    • Den Tolmor
  • Stars
    • Bishop Agapit
    • Catherine Ashton
    • Serhii Averchenko
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    • 69User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
    • 79Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Bishop Agapit
    • Selfas Self
    Catherine Ashton
    Catherine Ashton
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    Serhii Averchenko
    • Selfas Self
    Kristina Berdinskikh
    • Selfas Self
    Julie DiFonzo
    Julie DiFonzo
    • Claireas Claire
    Pavlo Dobryanskyy
    • Selfas Self
    Valery Dovgiy
    • Selfas Self
    Bohdan Dubas
    • Selfas Self
    • (as Bogdan Dubas)
    Kurganskyi Eduard
    • Selfas Self
    Mykhailo Havryliuk
    • Selfas Self
    Natan Hazin
    • Selfas Self
    His Holiness The Patriarch of Kyiv and Ukraine Filaret
    • Selfas Self
    Dmytro Holubnychy
    • Selfas Self
    Timur Ibragimov
    • Selfas Self
    Said Ismagilov
    • Selfas Self
    Cissy Jones
    Cissy Jones
    • Narratoras Narrator
    Kamaliya
    Kamaliya
    • Selfas Self
    Sergei Kibnovsky
    • Selfas Self
    • Director
      • Evgeny Afineevsky
    • Writer
      • Den Tolmor
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    A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
    • ukrainian politics
    • maidan revolution in ukraine
    • president
    • ukrainian russian relations
    • protest
    • 39 more
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    • Taglines
      • The next generation of revolution
    • Genre
      • Documentary
    • Certificate
      • Not Rated
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The director is Russian born, Israeli raised and now lives in LA
    • Quotes

      Ekaterina Averchenko, Herself: I can't accept after all the wars we've had in the world, we are still resolving our problems by killing each other.

    User reviews69

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    9/10
    History repeating itself (?)
    Not really, but it still is quite the ordeal and quite the ... well almost crazy thing to be watching this right now. While there is a war going on in Ukraine - a war that is unnecessary. Not that any war is actually and really necessary. But this one is especially hard to stomach.

    Bill Maher made a joke about one of Russias reasons to invade Ukraine (2022 that is): they claim that they are afraid Ukraine might get WMDs ... anyone who has a little knowledge of history knows the Americans did something similar some time ago ... that aside when I heard about the invasion I felt sick to my stomache. There is no reasoning and no valid reason for this to happen - no even if Ukraine or their politics "provoked" (mocked?) Vladimir Putin ... this is not even close to a valid argument for war. Don't even go down that road.

    So what to do, than to watch this documentary? Yes a glutton to punishment - no pun intended. I can watch this documentary from the safety of my couch or wherever I sit and watch, but the people here where fighting for their lives. And the camera does not shy away - we see the consequences of violence, we see the results of people being beaten or shot at. And it does not look pretty ... and yet the people of Ukraine will not give up .. they will not surrender, they will not give in.

    Harrowing and really grim, this may be a history lesson but one that I would imagine not many want to watch. Sean Penn apparently is in Ukraine right now - and he is allegedly doing another documentary about what is happening right now ... as if the pandemic was not enough madness this had to happen ...
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    • Release date
      • October 9, 2015 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Ukraine
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Netflix
      • Twitter
    • Languages
      • Ukrainian
      • Russian
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Mùa Đông Rực Lửa
    • Filming locations
      • Kyiv, Ukraine
    • Production companies
      • Afineevsky - Tolmor Production
      • Campbell Grobman Films
      • Makemake
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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