Portrait
Russia2002documentary28'Retrospektywa Sergeia Loznitsy (2018)
The idea of the film is simple and suggestive. Static, almost photographic takes of people in a winter landscape as a backdrop make a series of portraits of the residents of a Russian village. We are watching a man almost organically bound with a place.The sounds of nature, a blowing wind or singing birds signalling changing seasons, integrate it all. With this background, the image of a man at work acquires a deeply humane dimension, also thanks to the painting-like staffage, which refines the portraits of workers and farmers.
- 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
- Valery Petriashvili
- production
- Viacheslav Telnov, (Saint Petersburg Documentary Film Studio)
- Photo
