Day of Belarusian Cinema

On this day, in 1924, Belgoskino was created.On this day, in 1924, under the People’s Commissariat for Cinematography and Photography of the BSSR, the State Department for Cinematography and Photography was created – Belgoskino. The first chronicles of the events of those years were filmed.

In 1928, the Soviet Belarus film studio was founded, which, due to the lack of its own technical base, worked in Leningrad until 1939.

Belarusfilm filmed more than 500 feature films, several thousand documentaries and 100 cartoons.

In 1926, Belarusian viewers saw the first domestic “fighter” – Yuri Tarich’s “Forest Story”, based on the novel by Mihas Charot “Piglet”.

Tarich is the author of such well-known films as “Battleship Potemkin”, “Wings of a clap”. Korsh-Sablin, Tarich’s assistant in “The Forest Were”, directed “Seekers of Happiness”, “My Love”, “Konstantin Zaslonov”, “Who Laughs Last”, “Red Leaves”. And the main characters of the legendary “Chapaev”, Kmit – Petka and Butochkin – Chapaev, were seen in his film “The First Platoon”.

Yuri Tarich and Korsh-Sablin have forever entered the history of Belarusian cinema as the first domestic directors.