EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Alfred Roth and Janet Roth’s Raw Truth Entertainment has optioned Kalani Pickhart’s acclaimed debut novel I Will Die in a Foreign Land, with plans to develop it as a film.
The Ukrainian American production company will fully finance the pic as its first feature, with an eye on shooting on location in the Ukraine.
The book published by Two Dollar Radio follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter, as their lives are forever changed by the 2013 Euromaidan protests — a wave of civil unrest that rocked the nation, following its government’s decision to lean into its ties with Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union, rather than signing the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement.
The outrage that followed reflected the public’s perception of pervasive corruption and abuses of power within the Ukrainian government, including the violation of human rights.
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