The sun beat down on the sprawling Gauteng set of Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past , but for Hrodna-born translator Dmitry, the heat was the least of his problems. He sat in a cramped production trailer, staring at a monitor where Leon Schuster, dressed in his iconic sangoma furs, was frantically trying to explain the concept of a "cellphone" to an 1800s tribal chief.
A month later, Dmitry sat in the back of a theater in Grodno. As Bones accidentally triggered a massive food fight, the Belarusian text flashed: "Вось табе і пачастунак!" (There’s a treat for you!). Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past subtitles Belar...
By dawn on the second day, the file was encoded. The subtitles scrolled across the screen in beautiful Cyrillic script: Спадар Бонс 2: Назад з мінулага . The sun beat down on the sprawling Gauteng set of Mr