FYI: TV program on US public TV: "Belarusian Waltz" (about performance artist, Alexander Pushkin), week of Aug.12 - 17)

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Dear Friends,

Take a look at the preview on the following link for 2008 P.O.V.
"Belarusian Waltz":

http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/2008/06/2008_pov_preview_belarusian_wa.html

by Andrzej Fidyk Broadcast Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 10
PM (1 hour)

Check local listings for broadcast in your area:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/local_broadcast_v3.html

A couple of sample scheduled viewings:

Washington, DC, metro area:

CHANNEL 67 [digital] Owings Mills, MD mpt / Maryland Public
Television Tues. Aug. 12, 10 pm

San Diego, California:

KPBS / CHANNEL 15 [D & analog] Sunday, August 17, 11 pm

On August 12th, P.O.V. will broadcast Belarusian Waltz by Andrzej
Fidyk. The film features an idiosyncratic man named Alexander Pushkin,
who shares a name with the great Russian Romantic poet, but turns out
to be a different breed of artist altogether.

Belarus has been called "Europe's last dictatorship." Since 1994,
Alexander Lukashenko has ruled the ex-Soviet republic with a despotic
hand, jailing the opposition, shutting down the press and refusing to
investigate the assassinations of dissidents. He has virtually
silenced his critics -- but not one lone performance artist who stages
public stunts mocking the dictator's pretensions. Belarusian Waltz is
the story of Alexander Pushkin, whose audacious, comical exploits find
him facing the hostility of the police and the consternation of his
family. An offbeat tale of post-modern street theater meeting
1930s-style authoritarianism, the film offers a surprising window into
the soul of the Belarusian people.