Motion picture Abel which is being taken by Nonstop Media film company has already evoked a wide public response. Today a winter shooting stage – re-enacting of 2010 mass protests – has started in Minsk.
The film crew expects it to become a national blockbuster and win the international viewer: Abel tells the story of two brothers who happened to be on opposite sides of the barricades.
It is evident that a political issue is not to be slipped over. But the film is completely non-political, its authors state. Is their approach really plausible?
