Orange Winter is a 2007 feature documentary by an independent Ukrainian-American filmmaker Andrei Zagdansky.
The documentary deals with the fraudulent presidential election in Ukraine in November 2004 and ensuing days of mass protest, known as the Orange Revolution.
In the center of the film are not the political figures, but the "Maidan", literally "square" or "forum" in Ukrainian, the impromptu community of orange clad protesters.
The opposition candidate Victor Yushchenko won the run-off election and became the president of Ukraine.
Like Norman Mailer's nonfiction novel The Armies of the Night ... this movie characterizes a body politic as a living thing, and charts its internal changes as if it were the protagonist in a drama.While the movie chronicles the first two crucial weeks of the political chaos and civil disobedience in the country, director intertwines scenes from the streets with two opera performances Boris Godunov and La traviata staged during the same time in the City Opera House.