Blockade
Russia2005documentary52'Retrospektywa Sergeia Loznitsy (2018)
This film, made in the found footage technique, is one of the most important achievements of this kind of documentary filmmaking. Archival photographs from the siege of Leningrad by the Third Reich army were edited and revived thanks to the suggestive soundtrack. Silence, interrupted with single sounds, fills the unsettling atmosphere of the Soviet city under siege. The soundscape of Leningrad is made of a combination of fear, hunger and awaiting the unknown. The director gradually doses terror, constructing one-of-a-kind report from the city under siege.
- 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.
- script
- Sergei Loznitsa
- sound
- Vladimir Golovnitsky
- editing
- Sergei Loznitsa
- production
- (Saint Petersburg Documentary Film Studio), Viacheslav Telnov
- Photo
