Orange Revolution

Orange Winter 2004
KEY CREDITS
Conceived, directed and edited by Andrei Zagdansky
Narration written by
Alexander Genis
Narrator Matthew Gurewitsch
Music by Modest Mussorgsky,
Giuseppe Verdi
Original score by
Alexander Goldstein
Cameramen Vladimir Guevsky,
Igor Ivanov, Pavel Kazantzev
Produced by Andrei Zagdansky and
Gleb Sinyavsky
© 2006 AZ Films LLC.
All rights reserved.
SYNOPSIS

On November 21, 2004 the people of Ukraine were supposed to elect a new president. They had the choice of two candidates: an appointed heir - Victor Yanukovich, the prime minister in the government of the very unpopular outgoing president, and Victor Yushchenko, a popular opposition leader.
Victor Yushchenko was perceived as a pro-Western, pro - European Union candidate, Victor Yanukovich as a post-Soviet, pro-Russian politician with a questionable past.
The outgoing president Leonid Kuchma had an important personal stake in this election. For years the opposition had blamed him for various crimes from corruption to involvement in the murder of an opposition journalist. A hand-picked heir was his best chance to secure post-presidential immunity.
The day after the election, the state controlled media declared Victor Yanukovich a winner.
The outraged people of Kiev took to the streets staging the biggest mass protest in post-Soviet history.

Orange Winter conveys the ultimate national drama which history has dubbed "the Orange revolution".

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Entertainment

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• Ukraine