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The Authors bibliography: Yuri Khashchevatsky, Semeyon Frindland.
The Authors the film "Insearch of yiddish": Yuri Kashchevatsky and Semeyon Friendland.  Yuri Kashchevatsky. | The New York Times has called him dictator Aleksandr Lukashenka's "artistic nemesis." To the Belarusian authorities, he is public enemy number one, but Yuri Khashchevatsky prefers to think of himself as a "free spirit." His dissident documentaries have earned him a concussion, broken bones, a six-month hospital stay, and a Jury Prize at the New York Film Festival for Human Rights. Many believe that Khashchevatsky would have been silenced years ago by the Belarusian State Security Committee (new KGB), were it not for his international acclaim and membership in Charter 97, a pro-democracy organization of Belarusian artists and intellectuals. With its website and publications, Charter 97 gives voice to local critics of the Belarusian leader famously described as "Europe's last dictator." Khashchevatsky's works have been featured and decorated in dozens of film festivals in Russia, Europe, and The United States. Needless to say, his films are banned in Belarus. An Ordinary President (Berlin International Film Festival 1997) is a scathing satire of Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenka, in which Khashchevatsky paints his subject as a Hitler-sympathizing despot. Yuri Khashchevatsky's persona non grata status with the Lukashenka regime only adds to his celebrity in Belarus and abroad, just like it would have in Soviet times. In March 2006, Lukashenka won another rigged election, and thousands of Belarusian youth took part in a protest in Minsk's October Square. A brutal police suppression and shameful looting of the protesters' property followed. Khashchevatsky masterfully captured the startling events using hidden cameras. Ploscha ('Square') (2007) became an underground phenomenon. Using the power and anonymity of the Internet, tens of thousands of Belarusians have downloaded the artful documentary.The visionary director has come a long way from his beginnings at the St Petersburg Film Academy, where he was influenced by the likes of Fellini, Bergman, and the Soviet director Mikhail Romm. Today, Khashchevatsky's accolades include awards from film festivals in Kiev, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Munich, San Francisco, Geneva, and New York. The international film circuit has also recently brought him to Paris, Boston, Rome and Jerusalem. |  Semeyon Friendland. | Semyon Friedland was born in Minsk in 1946 and is a graduate of the Minsk Polytechnic as well as the All-Union Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. He has worked as a photographer, cameraman, and director at the Belarusian Telefilm Studios for almost 30 years. While there, he was responsible for shooting and directing over 60 documentary and feature films. He has been living in Berlin, Germany since 1995 and working for NDR, ZDF, Arte and other television channels. Some of Mr. Friedland’s past credits and awards include:Children of the Brest Fortress (documentary), prize at the All-Union Film Festival, Vladivostok, RussiaThe Dream (feature), First Prize at the Film Festival in Toruel, Spain All’s Well (documentary), Grand Prix at the International Documentary Festival, MunichRussian Happiness (documentary), prize at the Yekaterinburg Film Festival, RussiaOasis (documentary), Jury Prize at the Freiburg Film Festival, Germany. |
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