Comments on: Guess the Belarusian Movie Posters

By: Rex Bovee

Rex Bovee — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:17:00 +0000

Well, I’m glad someone else has attempted to transliterate these posters. I’m not fluent in Russian but can somewhat enunciate the Cyrillic characters.

I have worked with employees from Belaruss. It used to be called White Russia by Europeans.

knho (with “backwards “n”) means cinema as in movie.

Yes, the Thelma and Louise thing seems to permeate these posters. Is this in the eyes of the beholders … or the artists??!!

I’d like to see posters for Reservoir Dogs or Sin City or Secretary, something not so benign. Of course, maybe those never made it across the borders into Belaruss!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:15:32 +0000

No way- I kept thinking Thelma and Louise-I was trying to figure out which one it would actually be! The 50 Forst Dates was pretty obvious, but the rest- wow!

By: JT

JT — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:07:30 +0000

These are actually pretty cool. Bizarre, but cool.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:24:26 +0000

The ’50 First Dates’ poster is scary. Her eyes aren’t even on the same level!

They all look like variations on ‘Night of the Living Dead’

By: Sish

Sish — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:59:34 +0000

I am just tossing this out there I don’t really know…

All the posters are paintings, not actual photographs. They all sort-of resemble the actual characters, but aren’t wearing clothes that those characters wore (i don’t think). Maybe the Belorussian government has a law saying movie posters (or American movie posters) must be painted to reduce the effects of Americanization. The movies are the same obviously, but maybe they are just trying to prevent it in public ads because you are more people will see the ad than the movie.
If not that then my guess is still along the lines of changing the way the characters look.

It wouldn’t be that strange of a law. Canada has a law reducing the amount of American TV broadcasted over the air by any one Canadian station.

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:50:59 +0000

Why do the people in the Freaky Friday poster look like they are on some kind of mind-altering drugs?

By: Loomis

Loomis — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:44:44 +0000

The Scooby Doo poster is phonetically something like Skubi Du. The Just Married poster translates to Young Wife — I had to look at the stars to figure that one out. Ditto Shallow Hal with Dzhek Blek. (The title is Lyubov Zla, which translates to something like Love Evil.)

By: ac

ac — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:17:57 +0000

Thats funny because Jody Foster was in the orginial Freaky Friday

By: Ernie

Ernie — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:31:02 +0000

The one for “Freaky Friday” looks kind of like Jody Foster and Susan Sarandon; if the artist saw them both as being really ugly and kind of man-ish. And Drew Barrymore looks really terrified of Adam Sandler for some reason.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:29:43 +0000

Thank gawd I’m not the only person who kept thinking “Thelma and Louise?”