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Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

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United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States · 2015
1h 38m
Director Evgeny Afineevsky
Starring Cissy Jones, Bishop Agapit, Catherine Ashton, Serhii Averchenko
Genre Documentary

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.

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This is a documentary that reminds you of the resiliency of the human spirit. The resourcefulness that can take place when you have nowhere else to run.

90

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

What Winter on Fire lacks in journalistic detachment it more than makes up for in fidelity to the feelings and motives of the participants. It’s more than just a portrait of terror, anger, desperation and resolve; it communicates those emotions directly, into the bloodstream and nervous system of the audience.

70

Screen International by Dan Fainaru

More like the testimony of an enthusiastic, fully committed supporter watching, in close-up, a populatoon reclaiming its rights, Afineevsky’s film accepts as a basic premise that Yanukevych is the villain. Anyone who differs should look elsewhere.

91

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

With up-close footage of police beatings and hordes of angry protestors calling for the country's president to resign, Winter on Fire features the intensity of an action movie and the fury of a clear-eyed polemic.

75

RogerEbert.com by Godfrey Cheshire

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.

60

Variety by Jay Weissberg

Getting swept up in the immediate excitement is entirely understandable, but ignoring the less savory elements, such as ultra-nationalist rhetoric, is problematic at best.

75

Slant Magazine by Oleg Ivanov

This is activist filmmaking that manages to be both angry and elegiac in its recounting of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Farber

Although the film might have benefited from a deeper investigation of the background to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the vivid scenes of protest in the capital city of Kiev supply undeniable power.

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