Love in Belarus
Director Andrei Kutsila
Countries Belarus
Duration 29 min
Synopsis
Love in Belarus is love through the prison bars for Nasta Palazhanka and Dzmitry Dashkevich . They met in the Young Front - illegal Democratic organization. After protests in December 2010, they were put in prison. After detention in a KGB pretrial center Nasta was sentenced to a year of probation, and Dmitry was thrown in jail for two years. During his detention Dzmitry’s mom died, and Nastya remained the sole support for his father. The young couple married in prison, and on November 9, 2013 the leader of the Young Front was released. The lovers wrote thousands of letters to each other from behind the bars. These letters tell us about the feelings of young Belarusians, who fell in love in the time of the dictatorship.
Love in Belarus is love through the prison bars for Nasta Palazhanka and Dzmitry Dashkevich . They met in the Young Front - illegal Democratic organization. After protests in December 2010, they were put in prison. After detention in a KGB pretrial center Nasta was sentenced to a year of probation, and Dmitry was thrown in jail for two years. During his detention Dzmitry’s mom died, and Nastya remained the sole support for his father. The young couple married in prison, and on November 9, 2013 the leader of the Young Front was released. The lovers wrote thousands of letters to each other from behind the bars. These letters tell us about the feelings of young Belarusians, who fell in love in the time of the dictatorship.