Director & 1st camera: Gerhard Stoel
Produced & written: Gerhard Stoel, Thalia Verkade, Franka Hummels, Marjet Brolsma
2nd camera: Thalia Verkade, Franka Hummels, Marjet Brolsma
Editors: Gerhard Stoel, Thalia Verkade, Marjet Brolsma
Line producers: Aliona Kavalchuk, Siarzhuk Zaleuski
Co-producer: Jan Jaap Kuiper
Subtitles: Thalia Verkade

The Netherlands / Belarus 2003
Belarusian / Russian with English subtitles
54 min / PAL DV / Color / 16:9 letterbox / Stereo

THIS FILM WAS MADE WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPORT OF
Gemeente Groningen, Huiswerkinstituut Athena Appingedam, Stichting Alert & USVA Groningen

PRESS KIT
Press Kit in Acrobat Reader format


OTHER MATERIALS FROM OUR BELARUS PROJECT
Article about youth organizations in Belarus - Gerhard Stoel, 2004 (in dutch)
Literal transcription of researchinterviews - interviews with 9 representatives of youth organizations, spring 2002 (in dutch)

NE TARMAZI - DON'T BE SLOW focuses on two young people in Belarus, Volga and Andrej, members of different oppositional youth movements. The film shows their activities and explores their reasons to get politically engaged.

Volga is vice-chairman of the recently forbidden Belarusian Student Association and prepares herself to become the new chairman.

Andrej is one of the leaders of the illegal movement Zubr (Bison), which was founded in an attempt to force Europe's last dictator, resident Lukashenka, to resign during the presidential elections of September 9, 2001.

The story of these two young people contrasts with the story of Vladimir Kashtelian, spokesman of the Belarusian Patriotic Youth Union, the official state organization, which is supported and financed by the president.

The three stories are woven together and show how normal young people deal in different ways with an abnormal reality.