Documentary Films - Competition 2005 / Boža moj / Belarus 2004
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.
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.
20 min / Color, 35 mm
World premiere
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
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).
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Galina Adamovich
Film Director
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