Belarus: Difference between revisions

'''Belarus and its locals in fiction'''

* An episode of ''[[The Unit]]'' is set in Belarus.

* ''[[Come and See]]'', a 1985 film by the Russian director Elem Klimov. Probably the most famous war film set in Belarus, it averts [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]] [[War Is Hell|so hard]] that some see it as less of a war movie and more of a psychological horror movie. Notable for being one of the few Soviet films to not just mention, but to actually show the Nazis ''massacring an entire village'', as well as one of the first Soviet films to seriously deal with the topics of [[Les Collaborateurs|collaboration with the occupiers]] and [[He Who Fights Monsters|cruelty coming from both sides]].

* ''Defiance'', a 2008 film directed by Edward Zwick, details the actions of the Bielski Brothers and their attempts to save Jews from extermination at the hands of the German occupation. It's notable in that it's an American film set in Belarus, though it tends to make the same assumptions of most of American films about Russia--'Byelorussia' is only mentioned less than a half-dozen times. It also doesn't mention the historical anomaly that non-Jewish Belarusian partisans were willing to work with Jews, and lacked their own strong nationalist partisan group, instead rallying to the remains of the Red Army and taking on a distinct pro-Soviet stance (very much unlike their neighbors) as the Bielski Brothers did.