At the beginning of February 2022, when we were preparing this project, its working title was «At least we don’t have a war», because this is the argument that people who support the regime in Belarus like to use. And two weeks after we filmed it, Russia attacked Ukraine, with tanks with red and green flags that left the territory of Belarus in the direction of Ukraine.

The film «1991» appeals to the Belarusian factory workers, whose strike in 2020 did not take place in Belarus. Our film is an honest monologue by former Minsk Tractor Plant worker Sergei Dylevski, who was fired after being active in the protests. From his words, we learned what the mentality of a factory worker is like and why the strike didn't work out.

In view of the latest events, when citizens of Russia and Belarus can change the course of the bloody history written by the dictators of our countries through their actions, we decided nevertheless to release this film and to keep talking about the problem. Maybe every person «not involved» in the war will find himself in this «factory man» and will want to change something. Because it is time to make a change.

The title of the film is not accidental. «1991» was a difficult time in the collapse of the USSR, the agony and the workersʼ strikes. We wanted to remind where none of us want to go back to.