The Funeral Service For Yuri Khaschevatsky Will Be Held Today

At 2:00 p.m. in the funeral hall at 12 Olshevsky Street in Minsk.

The funeral service for renowned Belarusian film director Yuri Khaschevatsky will take place on July 24 at 2:00 p.m. in the funeral hall at 12 Olshevsky Street in Minsk.

The news of Yuri Khaschevatsky’s death was announced yesterday. The renowned film director, screenwriter, and public and political figure was 78 years old.

Yuri Khaschevatsky was born on October 18, 1947, in Odessa. After graduating first from the Odessa Technical Institute and then from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography, he began working as a director at “Beltorgreklama.” He then worked for Belarusian television, at “Belarusian Telefilm,” and, starting in 1989, at “Belarusfilm.”

Over the course of his creative career, he has directed more than thirty documentary and feature-length films. Among them are *This Quiet Life in Glubokoe*, *Krylov Was Here*, *Counterclaim*, *All Is Well*, *Russian Happiness*, *Oasis*, *The Time of Zhou Enlai*, “The Gods of the Hammer and Sickle,” “Living to See Love,” “Caucasian Captives,” and “In Search of Yiddish.”

Khashchevatsky gained the most fame for his 1996 documentary *An Ordinary President*. The film focuses on the early years of Alexander Lukashenko’s rule and was made in the style of a political pamphlet. The film received a number of international awards, including the Peace Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Grand Prix from Human Rights Watch in New York, and the “Golden Gate” Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The screenplay was written by Leonid Mindlin, and the film was produced by Pyotr Martsev. The film featured former Belarusian Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Zakharenko, who was abducted in 1999 and has been missing ever since.

The film “Ploshcha,” which chronicles the 2006 presidential election in Belarus and the protests on October Square in Minsk, also received widespread attention.

In public life, Yuri Khaschevsky was one of the founders of the Minsk Association of Jewish Culture in 1988; he served on the organization’s board but later left due to disagreements. In the late 1990s, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the World Association of Belarusian Jews.

In his political activities, Khaschevatsky openly opposed the Lukashenko regime. He was also a member of the organizing committee of the “Charter ’97” civic initiative.

In 2018, the director gave an extensive interview to the website Charter97.org, in which he spoke about his life story.

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