Viktor Nichyparavich Daschuk

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Wiktar Nitschyparawitsch Daschuk, at the 14th Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in Wiesbaden

Wiktar Nitschyparawitsch Daschuk ( Belarusian Віктар Нічыпаравіч Дашук , also Russian Виктор Никифорович Дашук , born September 16, 1938 in Khojniki district of the Belarusian SSR ) is a Soviet film director . In Germany he was first known through the multi-part documentary The War Has No Female Face (1980–1984). In 1983 he received one of the main prizes of the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival , the Silver Dove and the Findlings Prize for one episode of the film . In 1985 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR , the second highest Soviet award, for this and another film cycle .

Life

Wiktar Daschuk first studied journalism from 1960 at the University of Baku ( Azerbaijan SSR ), later directing in Moscow with Leonid Trauberg . Since 1960 he has worked in various positions at the Belarusian state film studio Belarusfilm . In 1970 he made his first own films as a director. Since then he has made over 80 titles. During the time of the Soviet Union, he received various high honors. In Belarus, which is now independent, he makes films that are critical of society - e. B. on state violence against demonstrators - some of which are not allowed to be performed in their own country. Several of them have since appeared on DVD with English subtitles. Wiktar Daschuk is married and has two children and two grandchildren.

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Individual evidence

  1. Information according to the Belarusian Wikipedia article: Віктар Нічыпаравіч Дашук