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Belarusfilm gears up to celebrate 100th anniversary of national cinematography

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MINSK, 16 October (BelTA) -  The Belarusfilm studio is preparing a series of films for the 100th anniversary of Belarusian cinema, which will be celebrated in 2024, artistic director of the youth film studio at Belarusfilm Elena Turova told the media, BelTA has learned.

Almost all divisions of the Belarusfilm studio, including the documentary film studio, are preparing for the upcoming anniversary. "We pitched our projects last week. The documentary film studio will prepare a series of films about our great film directors, about our golden era of cinema," Elena Turova said.

The films will narrate the life stories of Valery Rubinchik, Vitaly Chetverikov, Valery Rybarev. These will be films dedicated to the milestones in film production in Belarus. "We will make films about the initial epoch and about the very difficult era that followed: the Great Patriotic War. Despite the fact that most of the filmmakers were evacuated to Kazakhstan and Moscow, people with cameras were doing their job at the front too. Many of them were killed. But the best of our cinema fund has been preserved thanks to the courage, dedication and professionalism of these people, our colleagues," the artistic director of the studio said.

The youth studio Smolk@ is gearing up for the forthcoming celebrations. “We are preparing a host of chronicles with the working title Behind the Scenes. It is a chronicle dedicated to people who are less known to the press, the media, or television. They are not as famous as movie actors and filmmakers, but they are the people without whom there would be no films. They are cogs in our big well-coordinated wheel,” Elena Turova said. She specified that these were record keepers, makeup and costume artists, and advertising agents. “These are our colleagues, whose memory and experience we believe important to preserve. Our young professionals are working on it,” she added.

Director Natalya Kostyuchenko will be working on a film about the Cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk, a very important one from the cultural and historical point of view.

The Black Castle of Olshany film, based on the classic of Belarusian literature by Vladimir Korotkevich, has been already shot and the work on its production is in full swing. The film will come out in 2024.  Ivan Pavlov’s war drama with the working title Kazbek is scheduled for release soon.

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