The Train Stop
Russia2000documentary25'Retrospektywa Sergeia Loznitsy (2018)
Waiting is one of the characteristic motifs in Sergei Loznitsa’s films. In The Waiting Room, the director presents a poetic vision of time suspended in waiting by observing a trivial situation – passengers gathered at the train station. People waiting in the waiting room are tired and sleepy, falling into some kind of lethargy filled with boredom. Rhythmical sounds of the surroundings (including crickets and a buzzing fly) as well as soft, blurred photographs give the feeling of time materialising on the screen.
- 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.
- sound
- Alexander Sakrschevski
- production
- Alexander Rafalowskiy, (Studio 'Okno')
- Photo
