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Maidan(Майдан)

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Ukraine, Netherlands · 2014
2h 10m
Director Sergey Loznitsa
Starring
Genre Documentary

This documentary chronicles the civil uprising against Viktor Yanukovych, the former Ukranian president, in Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in the winter of 2013 into 2014. Director Sergey Loznitsa covers it all, from peaceful rallies to bloody battles between protesters and police, all culminating in the ultimate overthrow of Yanukovych.

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75

Slant Magazine by

It puts the viewer inside Maidan, allowing them to draw their own conclusions about the ideas and agendas espoused by the movement's leaders and participants.

80

Time Out London by Cath Clarke

Don’t watch this doc for a lesson in the crisis. Maidan is hard work, with no voiceover or interviews and just the odd scrap of information written on screen to guide you through.

90

Variety by Jay Weissberg

Beyond the film’s immediacy, “Maidan” is an impressive, bold treatment of a complex subject via rigidly formalist means

100

The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan harkens back to the heroic, journalistic roots of documentary-making and yet feels ineffably modern and formally daring. It’s a tiny marvel of a movie.

100

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

Easily the most rigorous, vital, and powerful movie of 2014, Sergei Loznitsa's Maidan may be a perfect Bazinian cinema-machine — reality is captured, crystallized, honored for its organic complexity, and delivered unpoisoned by exposition or emphasis.

83

The Playlist by Nikola Grozdanovic

If you have the patience to play the role of silent witness for the full two hours, Maidan is a rewarding experience and an alarmingly important wake-up call for those still in the dark about one of today's most critical situations.

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