The film directed by Elem Klimov based on the script of Klimov and Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich was awarded the “Venice Classics” prize in the “Best Restoration” category. The film of the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro called ‘The Shape of Water’ won the Venice Film Festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion.
The short-list of the 74th Venice Festival had 21 films. The Guardian writes that almost every film raized the topic of “the world’s social divisions and the spectre of climate change”.
The military drama made jointly by the “Belarusfilm” and “Mosfilm” in 1985 features a Belarusian boy who becomes a witness to the horrors of the Nazi punitive action, turning from a cheerful teenager into a gray-haired old man within two days.
In 1985, “Idi I Smotri” (Go and See) received the “Gold Award” of the Moscow Film Festival “and the special prize of the International Film Festival “Ferstroya” in Portugal.
The full list of awards can be found here.
