Overview
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to Russia for centuries; how it broke away from the USSR and began to walk alone; the Orange Revolution, the Maidan Revolution, the Crimea annexation, the Donbass War; all through the eyes of her family and friends settled in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city located just eighteen miles from the Russian border.
Director and cast
- Katya Soldak as Self - Journalist
- Timothy Snyder as Self - Historian
- Serhiy Zhadan as Self - Writer
- Mikhail Gorbachev as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Eric Potapov as Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
- Viktor Yushchenko as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Viktor Yanukovych as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Joseph Stalin as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Vladimir Putin as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Yulia Tymoshenko as Self - Politician (archive footage)
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