Road to Kuropaty

A film about the burials of victims of mass executions of civilians in the Belarusian village of Kurapaty, repressed in 1937-41. The film includes interviews with eyewitnesses, former repressed and former employees of the NKVD (sync. And behind the scenes). Belarus. The interiors of the church, which was during the years of repression in the 1930s-40s. a prison for political prisoners. The priest gives an interview (sinhr.). The former repressed talk about the years spent in prison, about the mass executions in the village of Kurapaty (sinhr.). An investigative officer expresses his attitude to the repressions of the 1930s-1940s (sinhr.), Shows the files with the files of the convicts. Soldiers are digging a common grave of those shot in the woods at the burial site. Bones and personal belongings on the ground. People at a rally dedicated to the memory of the tragedy in Kurapaty. Religious procession at the site of mass graves. An employee of the laboratory demonstrates the found personal belongings of the executed people, gives interviews (sinhr.).

Color

1921,8

Scriptwriter M. Zhdanovsky