It happened to a lad
Director: Sergey Loban
País: Belarus
Año: 2001
Duración: 54 min.
Género: Opposition
Idioma: Russian, Belarussian. English subtitles
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Reparto:
Yurij Konovalchik, Larisa Nenazzheva
Sinopsis / comentarios:
The film “It happened to a lad” (occasion with one guy) is the first independent movie shot in Belarus, moreover, shot by young people. The main character of the film, Yura is the summary portrait of Belarussian youth. By the concurrence of circumstances, this ordinary unemployed guy from outskirts of the city finds himself in the focus of political intrigues so that he’s forced to take his stand on the basic social questions. Authors: produced by the editorial staff of “the Navinki” newspaper. “The Navinki” is an independent youth newspaper, grown from the DIY-format up to an officially registered edition for the masses. In this time the editorial stuff became a kind of cultural society, whose activity isn’t bounded in journalism… There are some other youth projects working on the base of “The Navinki” like theater, library, and antifascist center. It’s planned to create a radio channel and a club of cinema lovers. The film’s importance for Belarus is determined by the historical and political specifics of the country. Seeing the pointed factors, Belarussian people miss a common identity model. Belarussians as the nation were formed in the bounds of soviet mass culture. After the USSR disintegrated, a need in a proper Belarussian culture emerged. There are a number of pretenders to occupy this sector. First of all, this is the state. Today’s Belarus is an authoritarian state where the state’s control regulates everything including the culture. You need officials’ sanction to conduct any cultural measure. Authorities must receive guaranties in advance, that the action doesn’t discredit in any way (by the text, decorations, participants’ behavior) ideological myths of the regime (vulgar pan-slavism) and personal President’s figure. All the products of the official culture bear an imprint of the ideological order: as a rule, there are either cheap popular standards or propaganda patterns ( see “To love as Russian do-III”, “ the moment of truth”. The democratic opposition tries to create its own version of Belarussian culture, looking for its aesthetic roots in nationalistic mythology. Actually, the productions like this go well together with state paradigm. The truth as Lukashenko sees it is that the world is the field where absolute good (East) and absolute Evil (West) competes. Nationalists see the world the same way; they just attribute all the positive values to themselves. For instance: the documentary “An ordinary president” The third subject of the cultural politics in Belarus is the young people. The question is that there are a number of cultural projects not involved in the political conjuncture and they try to reflect actual social problems. The film “It happened to a lad” became for young people a new cinema manifesto and gave a push to do their own films on belarussian themes. The film “It happened to a lad”, produced by “Navinki” crew in the hot pre-election summer of 2001, received an unprecedently high resonance among belarussian and russian mass media. More precisely, such editions as “The Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Moskovskij Komsomolets”, “Itogi”, “Novaya Gazeta”, “Izvestiya” (Russia), “Belarusskaya Delovaya Gazeta”, “Belarusskaya Gazeta”,“Belarusskaya molodiozhnaya”, “Molodiozhnyj Prospect”, “Zgoda” and anothers reviewed the film. The radio channel “Racja” (Belarus-Poland) prepared a broadcast dedicated to this film. Even the most conservative right newspaper “Nasha Niva” reluctantly defined the film’s success as “the event of the year”. In December 2001 we got the grand-prix at the VIth national festival “To Love Cinema” of non-professional films in Moscow, organized by Sergey Salnikov. The film had also been shown at such festivals as “Transit_01” (Minsk), “Kinotavr-debut” (Moscow) and SKIF (St-Petersbourg). Amnesty International Film Festival organisers are being examined the film as a candidate to participate in 2003 year competitive program. In November 2002 famous Russian Tv-channel NTV made a special transmission about us and our film, which got a wide resonance on all post-soviet countries. In 2002 russian film distribution company “Drugoe Kino” made the circulation of 10 000 copies of “It Happened To A Lad” in the series “Classic Cinema”. This is the very first time of issuing in CIS of an independent film in such a wide circulation.