Handbuch

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Handbook

Handbuch
Pavel Mozhar
German Competition Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Germany
2021
29 minutes
Russian,
German
Subtitles: 
German

A felicitous and at the same time almost unbearable cinematic experimental set-up that uses documentary means to show what the Belarusian reality behind the news items looks like. Based on eyewitness accounts, Pavel Mozhar re-stages Lukashenko’s perfidious and oppression-based power system. Violence in the shape of detailed reconstructions may seem abstract at first glance but drills itself into our consciousness all the more persistently in the course of the film.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Pavel Mozhar
Cinematographer
Jonas Römmig
Editor
Florian Seufert, Pavel Mozhar
Producer
Pavel Mozhar, Kolja Wolle
Sound
Joscha Eickel, Bertold Budig, Ganna Gryniva
Animation
Laura Därr
Artistic Design
Friedi Blume