Kalinovski Square (2007)

Original title

Площадь Калиновского

Directed by

Jury Chaščavacki

Genre

documentary film

Country

Estonia

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at the 2006 protests in Minsk after a presidential election was considered fraudulent. It follows ordinary citizens gathering in a central square to show their dissent.

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What happens

Kalinovski Square (original title: Плошча, or Plošča) is a 2007 documentary film by Belarusian filmmaker Yury Khashchavatski. The film takes a critical look at the re-election of Alexander Lukashenko in March 2006, featuring especially the protests that occurred after the election was found to be fraudulent. The protests had their centre at October Square in downtown Minsk, which was informally renamed on the occasion for Konstanty Kalinowski. Before its commercial release on DVD on 9 June 2009, the film was distributed under the title The Square. Since the Belarusian authorities already persecuted director Yury Khashchavatski since his first movie An ordinary president (1996), all production was done underground. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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