On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields
A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks.
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Valery Ponomaryov Director · Vasili Bykov Writer
First release January 1, 1995 · Produced in Belarus · Languages Belarusian, Russian
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Belarusfilm
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Belarus
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Original title
На чорных лядах
Original language
Belarusian
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Belarusian · Russian
Release dates
Belarus · January 1, 1995
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