Kalinovski Square

Kalinovski Square original title , or Ploa is an awardwinning 2007 documentary film by Belarusian filmmaker Yury Khashchavatski. The film takes a critical look at the reelection 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 downdown Minsk, which was informally renamed on the occasion for Konstanty Kalinowski.

The movie explores the question how it could be possible that 83 percent voted for Lukashenko, who has been referred to as Europes last dictator. Drawing on a lot of archive material, the movie shows the official propaganda and the naivety of simple people in the countryside, together with massive repression helped to defeat the Jeans Revolution. The narrative style resembles that of Michael Moore.The film won the Award Ion Vatamanu for love of truth and freedom at The International Documentary Film Festival CRONOGRAF, in Chiinu, 1519 May 2008. ........

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