ORANGE
WINTER

(dir. Andrei Zagdansky, 72 mins, 2007)

Opening one month before
the new elections scheduled for June 24.

Fri May 25 7pm
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Fri May 25 9pm
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One rigged election, two classic operas, one silent classic.
Orange Winter.

They poisoned the opposition candidate. But he survived.
They exerted full control over the media. But one journalist rebelled.
They stole the election. And the streets erupted.
This is the Orange Revolution, in Kiev, Ukraine.

"More than a mere history lesson . . . Like Norman Mailer's nonfiction novel THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, about the 1967 antiwar march on Washington, this movie characterizes a body politic as a living thing, and charts its internal changes as if it were the protagonist in a drama."
- Matt Zoller Seitz, NEW YORK TIMES

"Candid and exciting . . .inspiring."
- Bruce Bennett, NEW YORK SUN

"has passion to spare . . . valuable."
- Bilge Ebiri, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

On November 21, 2004 the people of Ukraine were supposed to elect a new president. They had the choice of two candidates: Viktor Yanukovich, prime minister in the government of the very unpopular outgoing president Leonid Kuchma, and Viktor Yushchenko, a former prime minister and popular opposition leader.

Viktor Yushchenko was perceived as a pro-Western, European Union-leaning candidate; Viktor Yanukovich as a pro-Russian, post-Soviet 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 'projected' Viktor Yanukovich a winner in what was widely believed a fraud-ridden election.

The outraged populace of Kiev took to the streets staging the biggest mass protest in post-Soviet history. ORANGE WINTER chronicles what happened in Kiev in the two weeks that followed the election and reflects upon Ukraine's fate.