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201130 minPGdocumentary

Splinters

201130 minPGdocumentary

Several single men return to a small Belarusian village after the collapse of the USSR, living day by day while escaping loneliness with vodka and conversations.

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Several single men return to a small Belarusian village after the collapse of the USSR, living day by day while escaping loneliness with vodka and conversations.

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Victor Asliukdirector

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In a small Belarusian village, several single men return to their parents' huts after the collapse of the USSR. They live in a state of disconnection, neither recalling the past nor planning for the future. Each day unfolds in a haze of vodka and conversation, as they seek to escape their loneliness. These men represent fragments of a life that has slipped away, unable to piece together the memories of what once was.

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