Sergey Loznitsa

The siege of Leningrad during World War II famously lasted 900 days, leaving more than 600,000 dead from starvation, disease or cold. Blockade, a compilation film based entirely on silent footage found in Moscow's archives, is an extraordinary account of life and death in a great city experiencing unprecedented hardship. (First Run/Icarus Films)

The story about a few days in the life of truck driver Georgy seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power. (imdb)

At a remote settlement in the Russian countryside, residents appear completely engaged in their farm work. Yet, some odd inconsistencies show up. Suffused with the sounds and rhythms of rural life, The Settlement (Polseleniye) is a visually arresting and enigmatic film--possibly a parable of post-Soviet life (a haunting coda hints at an answer)--from a renowned documentarian. (National Gallery of Art)

This film is a collection of static portraits. It`s a one long pause. No words, silence. (cinemaoftheworlds.blogspot.com)

Portrays one day in the life of a small fisher community in the north of Russia. (imdb)

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. (mubi.com)

A remote village in the North-West of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted. (imdb)

A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square. (imdb)

Speeding trains slice through the silence of the small train stop. The whistle on the locomotive and the thunder of the wheels disappear into the night, but fail to wake up people at the station. People just continue to sleep. What do they wait for? What will wake them up? (dafilms.com)

In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the dramatic moments of August 1991 and casts an eye on the event which was hailed worldwide as the birth of "Russian democracy". (imdb)

There are places in Europe that have remained as painful memories of the past - factories where humans were turned into ash. These places are now memorial sites that are open to the public and receive thousands of tourists every year. The film's title refers to the eponymous novel written by W.G. Sebald, dedicated to the memory of Holocaust. This film is an observation of the visitors to a memorial site that has been founded on the territory of a former concentration camp. Why do they go there? (imdb)

A study of life inside a Russian steel factory and a brick factory.

A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband, marked 'return to sender'. Shocked and confused, the woman has no choice but to travel to the prison in a remote region of the country in search of an explanation. So begins the story of a battle against this impenetrable fortress, the prison where the forces of social evil are constantly at work. (wildbunch.biz)

In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era. (imdb)

In 1930 in Moscow, USSR. the Soviet government puts a group of top rank economists and engineers on trial, accusing them of plotting a coup d'état. The charges are fabricated and the punishment, if convicted, is death. (imdb)

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral. (imdb)

Digging once again into the deep archives of 20th century audiovisual history, Sergei Loznitsa crafts this elegant, ironic mini-portrait of the galas of Paris's Palais Garnier in the 1950s and 60s. With his typically masterful use of montage, and a minutely reconstructed soundtrack, Loznitsa revisits a socio-political microcosm that features adoring crowds and glimpses of Bardot, Cocteau, and Queen Elizabeth II amid the pomp and ceremony of Parisian high society. —Opéra national de Paris

Documentary about Lithuania in the years 1989 to 1991, when the Baltic country broke away from the Soviet Union. Because of the peaceful protests with much singing, this period was later also called the 'singing revolution'. As one of the founders of the independence movement, Vytautas Landsbergis was at the heart of the historical upheaval. His incisive reflections are complemented by extensive archive footage of demonstrations, party congresses and the Soviet military intervention.

Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.

As he did with his critically-acclaimed “Blockade,” a documentary re-creation of the WWII siege of Leningrad, which received its NY theatrical premiere in March 2007, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has once again scoured the Russian film archives for “Revue,” selecting excerpts from newsreels, propaganda films, TV shows and feature films that present an evocative portrait of Soviet life during the 1950s and 1960s. With scenes taken from the length and breadth of the “Soviet Motherland,” “Revue” illus

Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory. (themoviedb.org)