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As young Nikita apprehensively enters his military conscription, and Svetlana travels the country looking for justice for her dead son, activists rage in the street against state-led violence rooted in dedovshchina, the cruel abuse that turns boys into soldiers and is the very mechanism of fear and violence Belarus uses to control its populace.

"...Co-directors Badziaka and Mihalkovich have crafted a touching but highly distressing film....Blessed with strikingly intimate and often visceral footage it is a tough but vital watch..." —Mark Adams, Business Doc Europe

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"...It's tense, essential filmmaking which, with its stormy colour palette and wintry gloom, gives a mounting sense of oppressive tension...This is a textured, layered documentary that builds into a multi-faceted portrait of a country..." —Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

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Mihalkovich, Alexander (film director)
Mihalkovich, Alexander (screenwriter)
Mihalkovich, Alexander (film producer)
Mihalkovich, Alexander (creator)
Badziaka, Hanna (film director)
Badziaka, Hanna (screenwriter)
Adamson, Mario (film producer)
Smith, Ashley J. (film producer)

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Cinematography, Siarhiej Kanaplianik; editing, Katiia Vushnya; music, Yngve Leidulv Sætre, Thomas Angell Endresen.

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human interest,military,protest,social unrest,Belarus,military,conscription,Slavic Studies,Film Studies; "Motherland"; Lightdox

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