Belarusfilm

Belarusfilm Film Studios
Type	Corporation
Industry	Motion pictures; Animated films
Predecessor	Lee-Bradford Corporation
Founded	1926
Headquarters	Minsk, Belarus
Products	Motion pictures; Animated films

Belarusfilm (Belarusian: Беларусьфільм) is the main film studio of Belarus.

History

Belarusfilm, under the name Belgoskino was founded in 1924.^[1]^[2] (American – «Universal Pictures», «Keystone Studios», «Paramount», «Metro Goldwyn Mayer», «Fox Film Corporation», «First National Pictures», «Educational Pictures», «Columbia Pictures», «Warner Bros», «Bray Productions», «Film Booking Offices of America», French – «Pathé», «Gaumont», Belarusian – «Belgoskino») In 1928, the Soviet Belarus studio (Савецкая Беларусь) was founded in Leningrad. The studio was moved to Minsk in 1939.^[3] Film production was interrupted by World War II, and restarted in 1946, when the studio assumed its current name.

In Soviet times, the studio was dubbed Partizanfilm, due to the large output of films portraying the Soviet partisan's struggle against Nazi occupation. The studio was, however, also renowned for its children's films.

The studio has to date made 131 animated films.^[4] Its first project was a coproduction with Soyuzmultfilm in 1963; a stop motion feature film called Attention! The Magician is in the City!^[5] Consistent animated film production, however, did not begin until 1972.

Most of the output has been in Russian rather than Belarusian.

Belarusfilm is also a co-organizer of the Listapad film festival held in Minsk, Belarus in November.

Among the early, Soviet-era directors who oversaw films for the studio are: Alexander Faintsimmer, Oleg Frelikh, Vladimir Gardin, Vladimir Korsh-Sablin, Grigori Roshal, Boris Shpis, Yuri Tarich and Mikhail Verner.

In 2019, a large part of the movie Squad was shot at Belarusfilm. It is the first Bollywood film to be shot in Belarus.

Selected films

Soviet Union

1926 Tale of the Woods or Forest Story
1927 Prostitute
1928 Kastus Kalinovsky
1928 His Excellency
1929 See You Tomorrow
1930 Hatred
1930 Sasha
1933 The Return of Nathan Becker
1933 The First Platoon
1934 Lieutenant Kijie
1936 Late for a Date
1936 Seekers of Happiness
1937 Beethoven Concerto
1938 The Bear
1938 Men of the Sea a.k.a. Baltic Sailors
1953 The Skylarks are Singing
1959 A Girl Searches for Her Father
1972 Fakir Hour
1975 The Adventures of Buratino
1976 Secret to the Whole World
1977 About Red Riding Hood
1985 Come and See

Belarus

1993 Az vozdam
1993 Me Ivan, You Abraham
1997 From Hell to Hell
1995 Lato milosci
1997 Zeezicht
2003 Anastasia Slutskaya
2003 Babiy Yar
2003 Chernobyl Heart
2004 Dunechka
2004 On the Nameless Height
2006 Franz + Polina
2010 Fortress of War
2010 Massacre
2012 In the Fog

References

^ "Official site". Archived from the original on 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
^ Huzhalouski, Alexander (2011). "Cinema in Belarus Under the Pressure of Censorship 1924–41". Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. 5 (2): 169–180.
^ Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) (3rd ed.). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1970. vol. 3, p. 99.
^ Chronological list of Belarusfilm animated films at animator.ru
^ Attention! The Magician is in the City! at animator.ru

External links

[1] "Official site". Archived from the original on 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-01-25.

[2] Huzhalouski, Alexander (2011). "Cinema in Belarus Under the Pressure of Censorship 1924–41". Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. 5 (2): 169–180.

[3] Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) (3rd ed.). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1970. vol. 3, p. 99.

[4] Chronological list of Belarusfilm animated films at animator.ru

[5] Attention! The Magician is in the City! at animator.ru

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