

Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship
2018-03-18 · Runtime unavailable · ★ 6.8
It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by fear. Disappearances, political assassinations, waves of repression and mass arrests are all regular occurances. But while half of Belarus moves closer to Russia, the other half is trying to resist…
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- Directors
- Manon Loizeau
- Production companies
- Magnéto Presse, ARTE, RTS
- Countries
- France
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- Released
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Alexander LukashenkaSelf (archive footage)
Aleś BialackiSelf
Natalia PinchukSelf
Boris YeltsinSelf (archive footage)
Vladimir PutinSelf (archive footage)
Mikalai StatkevichSelf
Barack ObamaSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marina AdamovichSelf
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