A GENTLE CREATURES

Director - Sergei Loznitsa

Script - Sergei Loznitsa

Camera - Oleg Mutu

Cast - Vasilina Makovtseva, Marina Kleshcheva, Lia Akhedzhakova, Valeriu Andruita, Boris Kamorzin, Sergei Kolesov

Producer - Marianne Slot

Production - Slot Machine

One day, a woman receives the parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband some time earlier. Confused and concerned, she decides to go to the prison in a remote area of Russia, to seek information. So begins the story of a journey rife with humiliations and violence, the story of an absurd battle against an impenetrable fortress.

Program

23.03.2019
DOM NA KINOTO - 20.00 часа
21.03.2019
INSTITUT FRANCAIS - CINEMA "SLAVEÏKOV" - 18.30 часа

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergey Loznitsa was born September 5th, 1964 in the city of Baranovitchi, in Belarus. Later Sergey’s family moved to Kiev, Ukraine, where Sergey graduated from Kiev Polytechnic Institute with a degree in engineering and mathematics. In 1991 he applied to Russian State Institute of Cinematography, in Moscow. From 2000 he produces works in the Studio of Documentary Films in St. Petersburg. In 2001 Sergey immigrated with his wife and two daughters to Germany.

FILMOGRAPHY

1997 Today We Are Going to Build a House (Segodnya my postroim dom) – short
1999 Life, Autmn (Zhizn, osin) – doc. short
2000 The Halt (Polustanok) – doc. short
2001 Settlement (Poselenie) – doc.
2002 Portrait (Portret) – doc. short
2003 Landscape (Peyzazh) – doc.
2004 Factory (Fabrika) – doc. short
2006 Blockade (Blokada) – doc.
2006 Artel – doc. short
2008 The Revue (Predstavlenie) – doc.
2010 My Joy (Schaste moe)
2012 In the Fog (V tumane)
2012 The Miracle of Saint Anthony (O Milagre de Santo Antonio) – doc. short
2013 Letter (Pismo) – doc. short
2014 Maidan – doc.
2014 Bridges of Sarajevo (Ponts de Sarajevo)
2015 The Old Jewish Cemetery – doc. short
2015 The Event (Sobytie) – doc.
2016 Austerlitz – doc.
2017 A Gentle Creatures (Krotkaya)
2018 Victory Day (Den'Pobedy) – doc.
2018 Donbass
2018 The Trial (Process) – doc.

A GENTLE CREATURES / КРОТКАЯ

France-Germany-Netherlands-Lithuania, 2017, 143′, color, movie

Program

Sergei Loznitsa