Movie Description:
With fury and agony, "Long Knives Night"and "Reporting from a Rabbit Hutch" confront Europe`s last dictator: Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. Writer/director Victor Dashuk has risked imprisonment and abuse - common for dissidents, as you see in the films - todepict and attack Lukashenko`s rise toauthority. With breathtaking access and terrifying insight, "Long Knives Night" documents and comments upon the 1996 anti-constitutional coup. Set a fewyears later, "Reporting from a Rabbit Hutch" reveals the dangers dissidents face in their struggle under dictatorship. Through widely recognizedas one of the most dangerous men in the world, Lukashenko has rarely before beendepicted on film. When these films finallyappeared in New York City in2006, in copies smuggled out ofBelarus,they caused a sensation. Now, at last, these harrowingand absolutely essentialfilms are ready for all libraries, inthe same, raw versions shown inNew York.
