Films by Ella Milova

Germany 1993, 66 min
by Yury Khashevatsky

After a visit to the West, Ella Milova and Irina Pismennaja realise that concepts of feminism differ greatly between east and west. The Belarusian filmmakers task director Yury Khashevatsky with shooting a cinematic letter directed at, among others, their Bremen colleague Helke Sander. The film documents everyday hardships in a dictatorship and an economy of scarcity. They speak about women’s work and sexual equality to workers and party functionaries, prisoners and women in Tajikistan who