REPORTING FROM A RABBIT HUTCH
Original language title: REPORTAZH IZ KLETKI DLIA KROLIKOW

Country of production: Belarus
Year: 2001
Language: Russian
39 mins.

Soviet tyranny lives on, and REPORTING FROM A RABBIT HUTCH exposes it. This is a film with rare guts, made by filmmakers who are clearly putting their lives on the line. The film documents the unusual status of a forgotten corner of Europe: Belarus, which is wedged between Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltics. Politically, the country is something of an anachronism - Belarus still follows something very similar to the old hardline Soviet system, and now has the inauspicious claim to be "Europe's last dictatorship." In this film, filmmaker Victor Dashuk and colleagues shower President Alexander Lukashenka and the system Lukashenka represents with ridicule and dissent. Lukashenka himself appears, as do several henchmen who try to destroy the camera. But the filmmakers persevere. This is rough-hewn, hard-core, must-see, front-line filmmaking.

Director: Victor Dashuk
Script: Victor Dashuk
Cinematography: Victor Dashuk
Music: S. Beltiukov
Editing: Victor Dashuk
Sound: Victor Dashuk
Producer: Victor Dashuk
Production Company: Spadar D
Source:
Victor Dashuk
Village Kliuchniki, 21
Post-office Astrashycki
223054 Minsk Region, Belarus
spadard@hotmail.com

Victor Dashuk is a graduate of the Journalism Faculty at the Belarussian State University. He studied scriptwriting and direction in Moscow under the supervision of Andrei Tarkovsky. Mr. Dashuk has more than forty years of experience in fiction and non-fiction filmmaking.

Thursday, March 27
9pm
Facets Cinematheque
Screening with SACRIFICIO: WHO BETRAYED CHE GUEVARA?