Revue
Germany, Russia, Ukraine2008documentary82'Retrospektywa Sergeia Loznitsy (2018)
The film shows the double life of a Soviet proletarian. Out of propaganda newsreels, the director extracted the essence of everyday life – mundane physical work – and contrasted it with the fragments of “official” life in the Soviet Union. The hallmark of Loznitsa, i.e. adding subtle sound to archival footage, makes it possible to feel the atmosphere of work at a kolkhoz or metallurgic furnace and, at the same time, serves as a contrast to trivial, ideologically formatted interviews with workers or overtly persuasive fragments of revues.
- 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
- Alexander Zakarjewskiy
- production
- (Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion), (Saint Petersburg Documentary Film Studio)
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