Austerlitz
Germany2016documentary94'Fokus na Niemcy (2017)
The most recent work by Sergei Loznitsa is a picture that requires a profound reflection presenting modern tourists visiting a place commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. In a series of still takes deprived of any commentary, it is the motion that dominates the scene as visitors that photograph themselves as if they were standing in front of historical monuments keep arriving in increasing numbers. Maybe our indifference to the horrors of war is rising or maybe the documentary shows only the very nature of the time we live in?
- directed by
- Sergei Loznitsa
Ukrainian director of documentary and fiction films. In 1987 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics. In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has been making documentary films from 1996, 16 of which won awards at numerous festivals. His fiction films include My Joy and In the Fog.
- cinematography
- Sergei Loznitsa, Jesse Mazuch
- script
- Sergei Loznitsa
- sound
- Vladimir Golovnitski
- editing
- Danielius Kokanauskis
- production
- Sergei Loznitsa (Imperativ Film)
- Photo
- Trailer