In 1913\, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Thé\;â\;tre de Champs-Elysé\;es. &ldq uo\;Only a Russian could do that\," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. &ldquo\;Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad.&rdquo\;
\nA century la ter\, in November 2013\, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Indep endence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych&rsquo\;s failu re to sign a referendum with the European Union\, opting instead to forge a closer alliance with President Vladimir Putin and Russia. The peaceful p rotests turned violent when military police shot live ammunition into the crowd\, killing over a hundred civilians.
\nI Will Die in a Fore ign Land \;follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter\, as their lives are forever changed by the Euromaidan p rotests. Katya is an Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift me dical clinic in St. Michael&rsquo\;s Monastery\; Misha is an engineer orig inally from Pripyat\, who has lived in Kyiv since his wife&rsquo\;s death from radiation sickness\; Slava is a fiery young activist whose past hards hips steel her determination in the face of persecution\; and Aleksandr Iv anovich\, a former KGB agent who climbs atop a burned-out police bus at In dependence Square and plays the piano.
\nAs Katya\, Misha\, Slava an d Aleksandr&rsquo\;s lives become intertwined\, they each seek their own s olace during an especially tumultuous and violent period. The story is als o told by a chorus of voices that incorporates folklore and narrates a tur bulent Slavic history.
\nWhile unfolding an especially moving story of quiet beauty and love in a time of terror\, \;I Will Die in a F oreign Land \;is an ambitious\, intimate and haunting portrait of human perseverance and empathy.
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