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Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship

Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship

Manon Loizeau

2018

  • Documentary
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…

Cast & crew

  • Manon LoizeauDirector
  • Alexander LukashenkaSelf (archive footage)
  • Aleś BialackiSelf
  • Natalia PinchukSelf
  • Boris YeltsinSelf (archive footage)
  • Vladimir PutinSelf (archive footage)
  • Svetlana ZavadskayaSelf
  • Mikalai StatkevichSelf
  • Barack ObamaSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

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