Lukashenko is great, the people of the province love him, and opposition doesn’t exist. A biting cynical analysis of a totalitarian regime in its entirely bitter absurdity.
Ardfhear é Lukashenko, grá mhuintir an réigiúin, agus níl a leithéid is lucht freasúra ann. Anailís ghéar ar réimeas ollsmachtach atá ina áiféis iomlán shearbh.
Trí mhí roimh na toghcháin d'fhógraigh uachtarán Phoblacht na Bealarúise Alexander Lukashenko: "Níl an dara rogha agat, tabharfaidh sibh bhur vótaí domsa!". B'amhlaidh a tharla i mí an Mhárta 2006. Thosaigh muid i mbun scannánaíochta i mí Eanáir, dhá mhí roimh na toghcháin, agus lean orainn i rith na bliana ar fad. Bhí muid ag iarraidh déanamh amach cén dóigh ar tharla gur vótáil 83% den daonra ar a shon? Cíorann an scannán streachailt an fhreasúra le linn na laethanta iar-thoghcháin. Ag baint úsáide as an iliomad ábhar cartlainne ó ré Lukashenko tarraingíonn an t-údar cosúlacht idir an stair agus a linn féin. Léiríonn an scannán bréagacht na bolscaireachta oifigiúla agus dearcadh doiléir na ngnáthdhaoine. Agus tuairimí á dtabhairt le chéile, imeachtaí stairiúla á gcur i gcomparáid, magadh á dhéanamh ar shotalacht agus ar bhéasa deachtóra, agus crógacht agus díograis na glúine óige á mholadh, taobhaíonn an fadscannán seo le tuiscint ar chéard go díreach atá ar siúl i lár na hEorpa.
Agus rud amháin eile - ní chuirfidh tráchtaireacht shearbhasach an stiúrthóra leadrán ort!
Three months before elections the president of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko claimed: "You have no other choice, you will vote for me!" This is exactly how it happened in March 2006. We started to film in January 2006, two months before elections, and continued through the whole year. We were trying to figure out how did it happen that 83% of population voted for Lukashenko? The film tracks the opposition struggle during few post-election days. Using a lot of archive material imprinted in the course of Lukashenko's governing author draws a parallel between history and recent days. The movie shows the falsehood of the official propaganda and the ambiguous, sometimes polar, attitude of simple people. Assembling together all the debris of the opinions, comparing different historical events, jeering at dictator's arrogance and manners, admiring courage and dedication of the young generation, the feature approaches the understanding of what is really going on in the center of Europe.
And one more thing - the director's sarcastic comment throughout the film does not make you bored!
Festivals: Input Lugano 2007, DOK.FEST München 2007, Akademie der Künste Berlin 2007, | 2008
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