Okupatsye mysteryy (2004)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Andrei Kudinenko

Writer:

Aleksander Katchan (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Child Nudity | Mooning

Cast

Aleksandr Kolbyshyov
Anatoly Kot
Aleksandr Malokanov
Svetlana Zelenkovskaya

Also Known As:

Mysterium Occupation (International: English title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Belarus

Language:

Belarusian | German

Color:

Black and White (archival footage) | Color

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the second vignette, an old woman is portrayed as sitting in the burning house playing the mouth accordion, seemingly insensitive to fire and heat, though almost burning alive herself.

Mysterium Occupation aspires to create a new national myth

"The official Belarusian film industry is now in a coma. Neither random injections of tiny budget funds, nor the authorities' calls to shape some vague 'national ideology' in a movie can bring it back to life. The actual creative film-making is going on a long way from the state-owned Belarusfilm studio and the Ministry for Culture. Having lived under cultural occupation for ages, the country has bred a new generation of intellectual partisans. Mysterium Occupation, an Andrej Kudzinienka feature film, is the best sample of creative post-colonial thought. It is not on at the cinemas, nor can you get it from any video shop, although it has stirred a good deal of interest among Belarusian audiences and was a success at the Rotterdam festival. Saying good-bye to the old Soviet partisan mythology, Mysterium Occupation aspires to create a new national myth."