Andrej Kurejchyk: There will be no sex... But there will be love!

Euroradio: The script itself is a secret. However, could you approximately underline the situation - to which kind of youth this TV-series are devoted?

Andrej Kurejchyk: “Different people will be presented. We want to show a wide spectrum of Minsk youth - musicians, students, ordinary guys from the neighbourhood”.

Euroradio: Thus, you will show both Minsk and Miensk? *

Andrej Kurejchyk: “Yes. There will be Belarusian-speaking characters, representatives of Belarusian intelligence elite, creators, ordinary people, guys and girls whom I meet in my own neighbourhood every day. It will be a city of different people, but it will be a wonderful city that we all love. We do not want to damage the city's reputation in any way, we want to show its cultural and human diversity”.

Euroradio: Will there be participants of silent actions in the series?

Andrej Kurejchyk: “There are none in the plot as it is based on a concrete destiny of a concrete person, and it is dedicated to the HIV problem in Belarus. However, I will do my best to show the city's atmosphere sincerely, as it is now, in 2011”.

Euroradio: Global Anti-AIDS foundation co-organized this project. So, will it be a drama?

Andrej Kurejchyk: “It will be a drama. This is a serious movie. We wouldn't like to mock the Belarusian youth much. Our aim was to understand their problems better: what they live for, what they think. We did not want to avoid some sharp cultural and social topics. It seems to me that drama provides maximum opportunities for that. The foundation, in our case, is the organization which finances the project through the UNO's program of development”.

Euroradio: This is the first Belarusian youth TV-series. However, if you say it's a drama, will it be in style of the Russian director Gai Germanika?

Andrej Kurejchyk: “No. We discussed the style with video operators, with a director who arrived. This will be something totally unexpected, both visually and stylistically. First, there will be a lot of creativity and music there. We have an aim to present a lot of actual Belarusian music played by young bands. Secondly, it won't be a gloomy movie. Although we focus on HIV problem, the movie will be bright and optimistic”.

Euroradio: Will any of famous actors appear in the series?

Andrej Kurejchyk: “There will be no Russian actors for sure, this is our principle position. We will invite Belarusian actors and Belarusian celebrities who form our cultural process”.

Euroradio: These are youth TV-series. Will there be erotic scenes?

Andrej Kurejchyk: “There will be love. I wouldn't call it sex... But as we speak about 20-year-old young people, naturally, they will be recklessly in love, there will be wild partings... there will be real first love, and maybe, not the first one".

*Miensk - the historical name of the city "Minsk", used mostly by the Belarusian intelligence elite

Photo: "Solidarity".