"The limit of freedom": the price of independence

2011. National Television Company of Ukraine. The documentary "The Limit of Freedom" explores the concept of freedom and its meaning for different people — entrepreneurs, farmers, workers. Ukrainian politicians, writers, journalists, scientists and representatives of the clergy reflect on what limits freedom and how its understanding has changed in Ukraine.

The film uses an archival chronicle of the late 1980s — and early 1990s: rallies in Kyiv, protests near the Verkhovna Rada, a human chain in 1990, the Revolution on Granite and speeches by miners. It is shown how students went out into the square, how the Soviet police detained the participants of the protests and how the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada voted for the Act of Proclamation of Independence of Ukraine. Among the archival footage is — the dismantling of the Lenin monument in Chervonograd on August 1, 1990.

The authors turn to social and economic changes of the first years of independence. In the frame of — queues in stores, sale of products by coupons, coupons of the Ukrainian SSR and rallies on the streets of Kyiv. The film chronicles the Orange Revolution of 2004.

Commenting: cultural expert Vadym Skurativskyi, writer Yuriy Topchii (Gustav Vodychka), deputy director of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Yevhen Holovakha, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko, associate professor of Zhytomyr University of Technology Mykola Kostrytsia, professor, honored doctor of Ukraine Olga Bogomolets, father Arseniy.