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Stories Set in Belarus
Belarus is a forested country between Poland and Russia, little visited and heavily policed. It remembers the war as its founding trauma, and its films return to 1941 like a wound that won't close. The Ascent climbed into the snow; Fortress of War held Brest. Open Belarus on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Belarus on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Belarus
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Browse 2 books, 10 movies and 1 game set in Belarus.
The Ascent
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory a voyage that will also take them…
Fortress of War
The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence including the three…
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureOn April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book…
Crystal Swan
Minsk Belarus 1996. Velya an aspiring DJ wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true but bureaucracy a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.
Chagall-Malevich
The film is an attempt to recreate the world of Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad. We are not exploiting Chagall's images but are attempting to create a dramatized projection of his…
In the Fog
Western frontiers of the USSR 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity he faces an impossible moral choice.
Spice Boyz
Vasilisa returns to her hometown for the wedding of her school friend Inna. Inna’s groom “Chistiy” with his two friends “Lambada” and “Kolbasa” organize a unplanned bachelor party on the eve of the wedding. Inna and…
In August of 1944
The movie is set in Belarus where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier behind soviet lines on the eve of a major offensive.
Tzadik
In 1942 Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women children and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted starving terrified and bereaved…
Kojak: The Belarus File
Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
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