Country In Exile

A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to go abroad. Among the new emigrants there are politicians, they are even called the government in exile. And there are ordinary citizens who could not even imagine that they would ever have to leave their homeland. The film tells how this Belarus lives, a huge community of migrants that has emerged over the past year. The stories of the heroes add up to a chronicle of what is happening in their country after the elections on August 9, 2020.

Mariya Borzunova

Self

Dmitry Teslykevich

Self

Maxim Ocheretniy

Self

Gleb Kovalev

Self

Denis Dudinskiy

Self

Katerina Rayetskaya

Self

Alexey Patsko

Self

Oleg Shanyk

Self

Vladislav Sokolovsky

Self

Ulyana Gorbacheva

Self

Alexey Susha

Self

Larisa Shanyk

Self

Alexander Ilyin

Self

Alexander Lukashenka

Self (archive footage)

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

Self (archive footage)

Viktor Babariko

Self (archive footage)

• Mariya BorzunovaDirector · Screenplay
• Darya MerinovaDirector
• Rodion ChepelScreenplay
• Larisa SvetlichnayaProducer
• Andrey KarasevDirector of Photography
• Nikolay AntipovDirector of Photography
• Anna TsigimaDirector of Photography

Release date

August 10, 2021

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Documentary