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Maidan

Uprising in Ukraine

2014 · 2h 10m · N/A Documentary
Directed by Sergei Loznitsa

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A chronicle of the civil uprising against the regime of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych that took place in Kiev in the winter of 2013/14. The film follows the progress of the revolution: from peaceful rallies, half a million strong in the Maidan square, to the bloody street battles between protesters and riot police.

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This doc gets so close to the action that your eyes will sting from the burning tyre smoke.

Cath Clarke, Time Out
Fresh

"Maidan" is a film of scale and immediacy, finding artistry, for better or worse, in bearing witness.

Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
Fresh

In contrast with most documentaries made in the wake of an historic event, "Maidan" will last beyond the current Ukrainian upheaval to stand as compelling witness and a model response to a seminal moment too fresh to be fully processed.

Jay Weissberg, Variety
Fresh

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa's Maidan harkens back to the heroic, journalistic roots of documentary-making and yet feels ineffably modern and formally daring.

Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh

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.

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

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