Svetlana Alekseevich (1948) is the first writer in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for her writings in the documentary genre. War does not have a female face. This is the story of this Belarusian documentary filmmaker about the times an ...
Svetlana Alekseevich (1948) is the first writer in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for her writings in the documentary genre. War does not have a female face. This is the story of this Belarusian documentary filmmaker about the times and memories of women who fought in the Soviet Union army in World War II, and now after many years, they talk about their nightmares, loneliness, and terror. He finds several hundred of these women and talks to all of them, they are from all walks of life; Sniper Nurse Pilot, Rekht Shoor, Partisan, Wireless, and... the memories are shocking... the women who wore boots and survived in the combination of soil, blood, and fear. By compiling these people together, Alekseevich creates a whole, contradictory and exciting, noisy and silent... The book sometimes includes such moments that go beyond what we have read and heard about the war, it is open and naked, and suddenly it gives us a mother. It shows that in order to cross the German inspection line, he covers his child with salt to make him feverish, and the soldiers are afraid of typhus, and he can carry medicine for the partisans in the diaper of the crying child with inflamed, fried skin... and this book Such people are.
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