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Korzoun Viktar

Vasil Bykau.The Return
The film is based on the last 2-hour interview with Vasil Bykau, the writer whose books became the classics of war literature. He contemplates about freedom, history and destiny of the nation, religion, heavy burden of totalitarianism and communism on the post-soviet territory. The video range consists of the chronicle of Bykau`s funeral ceremony that really united Belarusan people.

Little Peter of Great Wood or Good Morning to Everyone!
Vialiki Bor is a unique village. Before the Second World War it counted about two thousand residents. At the beginning of summer in 1943, the village was burnt down. However, the punishers failed to catch all the villagers. Some villagers managed to escape and hide in the forest. Those who were captured were told that they would be sent to Germany to work. Younger people were ordered to walk to the railway. The elder people were promised a lift in cars, but the elder people were locked in a kolkhoz stable and burnt alive.The protagonist of the film Little Peter of Great Wood is a 72 year old man named Piatro Sachanka, who was taken to Germany with his parents at the age of ten. Now, he recollects the distant events in detail. He recollects how they lived, what they ate, and how his parents worked.

Only believe the wind. Chernobyl, 20 years after
Film about the current situation in the zone polluted by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident and about the scientists's attitude to nuclear energy in general.The film makes people think about the dangerous "games" the humankind plays with the enormous powers of the nuclear energy and the responsibility before the descendents.

Producer, scriptwriter, film director. Graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts (Department of TV Directing). Filmography: The Subject of Freedom (documentary, 1999); Vasil Bykau. The Return (2004); Little Peter of Great Wood (2005, Munich International Film Festival); Right on Voice (documentary, 2006).
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