The Long Breakup (2020)
October 24, 2020
Documentary, History
1h 26m


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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Katya Soldak
- Self - Historian Timothy Snyder
- Self - Writer Serhiy Zhadan
- Self - Politician (archive footage) Mikhail Gorbachev
- Self - Politician (archive footage) Joseph Stalin
- Self - Politician (archive footage) Vladimir Putin
- Self - Politician (archive footage) Petro Poroshenko
- Self - Politician (archive footage) Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Keywords
- new york city
- family relationships
- female journalist
- russian history
- geopolitics
- orange revolution (ukraine)
- mother daughter relationship
- donbass war
- soviet union history
- ukrainian revolution
- ukrainian politics
- ukrainian history
- maidan revolution (ukraine)
- kharkiv (kharkov), ukraine