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• 2005.05.25 | Sztefan von Seitz

  У 2006 буде великий.

  The Ukraine project (working title)
  
  At the start, the election seems a foregone conclusion. Ukraine's post-Soviet regime has an iron grip on the police, the military, the media, and the electoral machinery. Then unexpectedly, Victor Yushchenko, the opposition presidential candidate, takes the lead in opinion polls. Six weeks before the November 2004 vote, Yushchenko is poisoned. He barely survives, campaigning in pain, his face severely scarred by the toxin.
  
  When the regime resorts to blatant electoral fraud, the people of Ukraine arise into the nonviolent Orange Revolution. Overnight, they converge on the capital city Kiev, by the hundreds of thousands, building tent camps, occupying the city center, by massing in the snow. "Tak!" their flags read - for "Yes!" for Yushchenko. Accompanied by rock musicians, their protests escalate. When troops are ordered to break up the protests with live ammunition, Ukraine's secret intelligence officers intervene, averting a massacre. In dramatic televised Supreme Court proceedings, the fraud is proven beyond doubt, and the justices call for new elections. In January, 2005, the people of Ukraine celebrate the inauguration of President Yushchenko.
  
  This feature-length documentary, scheduled for release in 2006, will tell the story of the popular uprising that dominated newspaper headlines around the world for weeks, and proved that the future of a post-Soviet country could be decided -- not within the walls of the Kremlin -- but by the will of its own people.
  
  For more information about this film, contact Miriam Zimmerman at mzimmerman@yorkzim.com.