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These films are a joint work of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the National Film Studio Belarusfilm. The plot is based on the materials of the investigation of the criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people.
The film “Burnt Villages” tells about the tragic fate of the Belarusian villages destroyed by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. The viewer is exposed to the horrifying truth about the “scorched earth” policy pursued by the Nazis in the occupied territory of Belarus, and its merciless consequences for the civilian population. Every settlement destroyed in the fire becomes a symbol of irreparable losses and ruined lives.
The authors of the film have collected unique archival video testimonies of surviving eyewitnesses, documents and footage that allow us to fully restore the picture of those terrible events.
“Burnt villages” is not only a tribute to the memory of the dead, but also a warning against the recurrence of such tragedies in the future. It is a reminder of the price of peace and the need to preserve historical truth.
In 2021, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Belarus opened a criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War. During the investigation, new facts of the genocide of civilians by the Nazis were revealed, which were reflected in the film “Death Camps”.
There were more than 560 concentration camps on the territory of Belarus, where the Nazis brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians. Being in the epicenter of the war, Belarus lost over 2.5 million inhabitants, one in three was killed. Every day, fascists burned people alive in barns, sent them to gas chambers, and shot them on the edge of a dug-out ditch.…The invaders burned and destroyed 209 of 270 cities and regional centers, more than 11 thousand villages and villages.
Years later, memorials were erected at the sites of the tragedies so that the cruel truth about the war on Belarusian soil and the genocide of the people would never be forgotten.
War is scary. People are dying on it. But the further we get from it, the fainter the memories become, fading and losing shape. 80 years have passed since the great victory over world evil, and it is difficult to realize what the war was. There are fewer and fewer veterans left, and it is more difficult for them to convey the truth about the boundless horror that took place in our Homeland from 1941 to 1945.
– This is a difficult film about the genocide of the Belarusian people, the purpose of which is to show the atrocities and brutality of the German occupiers. Many films show the inhuman actions of the fascists, but there they appear as episodic, isolated scenes. This work brings together all the atrocities of the Nazis. Burning alive people with children, mountains of corpses, rape, bullying of defenseless crying women – all these “virtues” of the “superior race” are shown in the film. This is not a picture where “ours” are at war with “not ours”, demonstrating their valor, courage and cunning. It’s just a chain of events that demonstrates how everything was and what the representatives of the “valiant” Aryan nation looked like. An impressive dilogy, true, interesting, deep, but quite heavy, depressing and creepy that words are superfluous here.… It’s definitely worth watching for everyone. The memory of the Great Patriotic War should be alive and relevant for each of us. We must pass on the history of the war to the next generations so that they know and appreciate the feat of our ancestors. Remembering the war means respecting and honoring the memory of those who defended our country and our freedom,” the Press House staff unanimously noted.
