Jak kino białoruskie w okresie sowieckim opowiadało historię II wojny światowej
How Belarusian films in Soviet times narrated history of the World War II

Summary/Abstract: Image of the World War II was expressive in the Soviet Belarusian culture of remembrance, this was predetermined by not only the political regime historic policy, but also due to the fact that the war really left a deep footprint in the Belarusians’ collective memory. In the Soviet Belarus film studio Belarusfilm («Беларусьфільм») was created about 70 artistic movies, which subject was history of the World War II. This paper analyzes how film studio Belarusfilm in 1946–1985 created films was told history of the World War II. It is tried to answer the question of how the feature films about the war reflected the official policy of Soviet regime history and develop Belarusian cinema narrative about the feature of the war. This article show that in film studio Belarusfilm 1946–1985 created artistic films about the World War II became official Soviet regime reflection of political history. Politic of political rezime history determined that about war was openly speak just in Khrushchev’s thaw (1953–1964) time created films, because for political regime was useful openly narrative about war, which could serve to Stalin’s identity cult destruction. Belarusian film reflect from the mid-sixties of the 20th century an active memory of the war actualization in the Soviet Union started: began widely exploit images of the victory over Nazism both for its political regime legitimation and Soviet human identity construction. Belarusfilm studio increased number of the movies on the war theme which content reflected the main trends of Soviet narrative about the war. It is argued that exclusive belarusian film narrative feature about the war was special attention for Soviet Belarusians partisans fighting representation.

• Details
• Contents