89 Millimeter

  • Ludmilla
  • Slava
  • Alexander
  • Pavel
  • Olga
  • Igor

89 millimeters is a documentary filmmaker Sebastian Heinzel, shot from 2004 to 2005 in Belarus.

Content

The film describes the life of six young Belarusians who try after the collapse of the Soviet Union, to find a way for themselves and their future. The eponymous 89 millimeters, the difference in track width of the railway tracks between Belarus and its western neighbors. No great distance, yet opens the border to supposedly " last dictatorship in Europe " another world.

The making of the film at only 24 - year-old director is looking for the people in this country. He focuses on the question of how a dictatorship in daily life is and what it does to people. In everyday life, the author observed, make as young adults of his generation, their lives. For five more weeks stays in Minsk a close intimacy between film crew and protagonists who can feel the audience in the intimacy of the recorded situations developed in the course of an entire year.

Festival participation (selection)

  • " One World Festival" in Prague and Bratislava
  • " Cologne Conference " ( "Spectrum Young film" ) in Cologne
  • " Anonimul Festival" in Sfântu Gheorghe / Romania
  • " Document Festival" in Glasgow / Scotland
  • " EU XXL " in Vienna and Krems
  • " Big Sky Documentary Festival " in Missoula / USA

Prices

  • Predicate Precious, Film Review Board (FBW )
  • Special Mention of the Jury, " Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival "
  • Best Editing, International Student Film Festival in Potsdam Sehsüchte
  • Best Cinematography, " Dokufest " in Prizren / Kosovo

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film: "Through the clever structure develops an illuminating Generationenporträit that presents not only the people and their hopes, but also the mood of a region reflects, which is largely cut off from Western Europe. "
  • German wave: "A real revelation of the situation in this little-known country in Central Europe. "
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung: " In the must-see documentary, the young director explores the subtle mechanisms of dictatorship Lukashenko. "
  • Jury " Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival ", "A kaleidoscope of encounters that combine to create an exciting picture. "
  • Jury " Sehsüchte Festival " Potsdam " free of prefabricated patterns of interpretation can the film is a multi-faceted world arise in which the viewer can look around freely. "
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