Archive of films My God / Boža moj

Belarus
2004, 20 min

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2005

Seventy-seven-year-old Julite Karmaza lives with her taciturn son on the Belarus-Lithuanian border. She runs a small farm and goes to church on Sundays. However, her greatest pleasure is in creating sculptures for tombstones and wayside shrines out of her own, handmade cement.


Synopsis

Julite Karmaza, a fine-looking woman, lives with her taciturn bachelor son near the village of Peligrynda on the Belarus-Lithuanian border. She is on the go from morning to night, also producing cement for her wonderful sculptures. She created them for her husband’s grave, and now has some ready for herself and her son. Her Virgin Marys and Calvaries decorate wayside shrines all over the local area. Her sincere piety explains her humility and the patience with which she acknowledges her hard and lonely fate.

About the director

Galina Adamovich

Galina Adamovich graduated from the Belarus Academy of Art in Minsk (1994). While with Belarusfilm Studios she shot the following documentaries: Rubbish (Turusy na kolyosakh, 1992), Love Me When I’m Black (Polyubi menya chornenkim, 1993), Of Concern to Women (Zhenskii vopros, 1995), Arlen’s Faust. Music, Help! (Faust Arlena. Muzyka, pomogi!, 1996), For the Town and World (Gorodu i miru, 1997), Holiday for an Orphan (Kanikuly dlya siroty, 1998), Once Upon a Time (2001) Genius loci (Genij mesta, 2002). 

Contacts

Belarusfilm Studios
Skorina Ave 98, 220 023, Minsk
Belarus
Tel: +375 172 638 044
Fax: +375 172 640 751
E-mail: [email protected]

About the film

Color, 35 mm
World premiere

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
   
Director: Galina Adamovich
Screenplay: Galina Adamovič/Galina Adamovich
Dir. of Photography: Tatiana Loginova
Music: Ivan Kirčuk/Ivan Kirchuk
Editor: Jurij Bytko/Yuryi Bytko
Producer: Vjačeslav Šenko/Vyacheslav Shenko
Production: Belarusfilm Studios
Contact: Belarusfilm Studios

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Galina Adamovich

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