The Orange Sky
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| The Orange Sky Помаранчеве Небо |
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| Directed by | Oleksandr Kyryenko |
| Produced by | Yuri Butsov |
| Written by | Yuri Butsov, Svitlana Rudzynska |
| Starring | Lidia Obolenska Aleksandr Lymarev Ksenia Belaya Mykolai Chindiaikin Oleksiy Vertynskyi Oleksandr Moroz |
| Music by | Okean Elzy, Tartak, Luk, Nino Katamadze |
| Cinematography | Uluhbek Khamraev |
| Distributed by | Cinema Production |
| Release date(s) | 2006 |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Language | Ukrainian |
| Budget | $ 500,000 |
The Orange Sky (Ukrainian: Помаранчеве Небо. This film was made in 2006 and after the infamous Orange Revolution which took place in eastern European nation of Ukraine. Directed by Oleksandr Kyryenko with the Cinema Production.
Movies since their creation have always played an important role in the art scene. Often, movies reflect some of most important issues that are prevalent in a given society. Certainly, in the former Soviet Union, movie making was highly regarded as the States’ propaganda for the education of the masses. Even today, in this former Soviet Republic, presently a sovereign nation, the notion of using film as reflection of political and social life has not changed. In fact, with new approaches and eased ability to speak about politics the film “Orange Sky” represents a new form of cinema emerging in Ukraine. In this particular film, the director fuses political developments with melodramatic themes to create a pseudo-fictional reality.
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[edit] Mini-Synopsis
The movie tells of a love story of two greatly different young people. The heroine, Ivanna is a young girl with ambitiously nationalistic beliefs in the power of democracy. She expresses her patriotism by voicing, often protesting the present regime of Ukraine in the favor of revolutionary ideals.Mark, the protagonist, on the other hand is a privileged son of a government official whose life is filled with excitement from being able to get everything his heart desires. The two meet in the midst of a national crisis when a series of massive protests and political events were unfolding in Ukraine. Of course with the meeting, the two fall in love forever changing each other's paths. Mark, is unwillingly becoming estranged from his comfortable life and seeks to obtain understanding of what drives Ivana and her friends to stand up to authority. Eventually two are united in one cause: fighting for a better future in their country. The movie uses a semi-reenactment of the actual events of the winter in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution. The protests, the rioting, the cold weather (yet not as it really was) are all there. However, the focus is the love story which seems to be its downfall because the movie loses its strong grip by trying parody a blockbuster hit.
[edit] Criticism
Unfortunately, with this film it seems like the “multi storied structure of cinematography” of which Neya Zorkaya spoke very profoundly about. The “Orange Sky” movie seems to represent exactly that transition of original cinematography into a less sophisticated form of movie productions such as presently known as “pop culture” and “show business”.
