{"id":550722,"date":"2026-06-13T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=550722"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:58:11","slug":"road-to-kurapaty-film-by-belarusfilm-declared-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/road-to-kurapaty-film-by-belarusfilm-declared-extremist","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Road to Kurapaty&#8221; Film by Belarusfilm Declared &#8220;Extremist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Road to Kurapaty&#8221; Film by Belarusfilm Declared &#8220;Extremist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Leninski District Court of Hrodna has designated as &#8220;extremist material&#8221; the film &#8220;Road to Kurapaty&#8221;, produced in 1990 by the Letapis studio of <b>Belarusfilm<\/b>. The film is currently available on the YouTube channel &#8220;Sergey&#8221;. Two other videos from the same channel were also added to the list of extremist materials: &#8220;Belarusian Resistance for a Free State!&#8221; and &#8220;Stalin Line&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The director of &#8220;Road to Kurapaty&#8221; was <b>Mikhail Zhdanouski<\/b>, who passed away on October 20, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The screenplay was written by <b>Mikhail Zhdanouski<\/b> together with <b>Aliaksandr Lukashuk<\/b>. <b>Zianon Pazniak<\/b> took part in the making of the film. The cinematographer was <b>Siarhei Piatrouski<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The film received a State Prize. In the early 1990s, it was screened throughout the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Road to Kurapaty&#8221; is a documentary testimony to the crimes committed by the Bolshevik regime against people.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities also added to the list of extremist materials the Instagram account of <b>Janusz Hawryluk<\/b>, a Polish citizen, graduate of the Belarusian Philology Department at the University of Warsaw, and founder and director of the Belarusian film festival Bulbamovie.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Reform.news cultural news updates on Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Road to Kurapaty&#8221; Film by Belarusfilm Declared &#8220;Extremist&#8221; The Leninski District Court of Hrodna has designated as &#8220;extremist material&#8221; the film &#8220;Road to Kurapaty&#8221;, produced in 1990 by the Letapis studio of Belarusfilm. The film is currently available on the YouTube channel &#8220;Sergey&#8221;. Two other videos from the same channel were also added to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a2e51078e8b6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u00abRoad to Kurapaty\u00bb Film by Belarusfilm Declared \u00abExtremist\u00bb"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}