Life, Autumn

Zhizn, osin

Germany, Russia

1999

35 Min

Black and White

Russian

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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DIR Sergei Loznitsa, Marat Magambetov

ED Margarita Smirnova, Sergei Loznitsa, Marat Magambetov

It was filmed in rural Russia, near the city of Smolensk. It shows a small village, where all young people are gone and only older people are left. There is shortage of basic material necessities, but at the same time they are in possession of the simple, but most important core values and elements of life: their Village, Time, Friends and Family, Children, Wedding, Thunderstorm, Morning, Conversation, Happiness, Death, Sun, Winter, and Love. —loznitsa.com

Director

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa was born on September, 5th 1964 in Baranovichi (Belarus, former USSR). He grew up in Kiev, and in 1987 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1987-1991 he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing in artificial intelligence research. He also worked as a translator from Japanese.

In 1997 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he studied feature film making.

Sergei Loznitsa has been making documentary films since 1996, and he has directed 13 documentaries. He has received numerous international and national awards, including festival prizes in Karlovy Vary, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Paris, Madrid, Toronto, Jerusalem, St-Petersburg, as well as the Russian National Film awards “Nika” and “Laurel”. Sergei Loznitsa’s montage film “Blockade” (2005) is based on the archive footage of besieged Leningrad.

Loznitsa’s feature debut “MY JOY” (2010) premiered… read more