Country In Exile (2021)
A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to go abroad. Among the new emigrants there are politicians, they are even called the government in exile. And there are ordinary citizens who could not even imagine that they would ever have to leave their homeland. The film tells how this Belarus lives, a huge community of migrants that has emerged over the past year. The stories of the heroes add up to a chronicle of what is happening in their country after the elections on August 9, 2020.
Directors:
Mariya Borzunova, Darya Merinova.
Writers:
Mariya Borzunova, Rodion Chepel.
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Mariya Borzunova as Self |
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Dmitry Teslykevich as Self |
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Maxim Ocheretniy as Self |
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Gleb Kovalev as Self |
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Denis Dudinskiy as Self |
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Katerina Rayetskaya as Self |
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Alexey Patsko as Self |
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Oleg Shanyk as Self |
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Vladislav Sokolovsky as Self |
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Ulyana Gorbacheva as Self |
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Alexey Susha as Self |
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Larisa Shanyk as Self |
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Alexander Ilyin as Self |
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Alexander Lukashenko as Self (archive footage) |
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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as Self (archive footage) |
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Viktor Babariko as Self (archive footage) |
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Roman Golovchenko as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Mariya Borzunova | Director |
| Directing | Darya Merinova | Director |
| Writing | Mariya Borzunova | Screenplay |
| Writing | Rodion Chepel | Screenplay |
| Camera | Andrey Karasev | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Nikolay Antipov | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Anna Tsigima | Director of Photography |
| Production | Larisa Svetlichnaya | Producer |