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I am Italian and I saw the movie in Italy during a Film Festival with the director of the movie intervening for Q&As as a guest.

It was very clearly explained that this movie IS NOT a depiction of the facts of Minsk that took place in August 2020 and that it is instead a fictional story. Of course the Minsk protests were an inspiration and are the background of this story but this is NOT a documentary. Its main purpose is to show the world that dictatorships are bad and their cruelty can affect anyone in the world, even people who are unaware. The film is powerful and eye-opening, well directed in one take.

You know, you can't say, that you base on real events and not check them. You can't show a real person, who became a victim of those events, and change his whole biography. Does the family of Alexander Taraykovskiy know? So many facts are just wrong, so many facts weren't even mentioned. That's just disrespectful. Everything there is disrespectful. Belarusians are incredible, they are not just some stupid teenagers who wanted to "watch a revolution". And yes, there was violence, but it wasn't like in a NTV channel series, it was worse. People died, people were black from bruises, women became sterile because of raping, people couldn't sleep because of screaming from the prison and even after that thousands of us came out to the streets with nothing but ourselves. And we did it over and over again, every week, Saturday - women's rally, Sunday - common one. It was scary and exhausting, not exciting like it was shown. Belarusians deserve respect, not pity. I want people to know what was and is still going on in Belarus, but I don't want them to think, that we are like that. I'm proud of belarusians. Zhyve Belarus.

I liked the film, and I understand that the survivors of the Titanic do not need to show a film about the Titanic with Leo, it will be too sugary and light, not enough tin.

Thank you guys for talking about our pain and traveling the world.

I was impressed to learn that the film was made in one-shot style and filmed in Tallinn.

It was a powerful reminder of all the stories we read in telegram channels or experienced firsthand.

The director was able to skillfully combine these experiences in a way that united us all, for which we are incredibly thankful.

I would highly recommend that more people watch this powerful film and let it bring us all together.