LIFE, AUTUMN
Portrait
TRIPLE FEATURE
While irony was stamped all over SEGODNYA MY POSTROIM DO, the first film Loznitsa co-directed with fellow VGIK student Marat Magambetov, more indication of Loznita’s future direction was given by ZHIZN’, OSEN’, a leisurely paced but highly conceptual portrait of traditional Russian country life by Smolensk. Nostalgia capable of shedding its anachronistic patina overlayers the twinkling images. What dominates here is the picture of an era in which the human being behind the still life becomes visible outside the confines of the clearly defined black-and-white surface. Whatever material deprivations are suffered, assets remain: the basic components of a certain happiness.
ZHIZN, OSEN / LEBEN, HERBST
DEU 1998 / 34 min
Director: Sergei Loznitsa,Marat Magambetov
- Cinematographer: Vladimir Bashta
- Sound: Aleksandr Zakrzhevskiy
- Producer: Ulrich Miller
- Production Company: pop tutu film - Germany
TRIPLE FEATURE
While irony was stamped all over SEGODNYA MY POSTROIM DO, the first film Loznitsa co-directed with fellow VGIK student Marat Magambetov, more indication of Loznita’s future direction was given by ZHIZN’, OSEN’, a leisurely paced but highly conceptual portrait of traditional Russian country life by Smolensk. Nostalgia capable of shedding its anachronistic patina overlayers the twinkling images. What dominates here is the picture of an era in which the human being behind the still life becomes visible outside the confines of the clearly defined black-and-white surface. Whatever material deprivations are suffered, assets remain: the basic components of a certain happiness.
While irony was stamped all over SEGODNYA MY POSTROIM DO, the first film Loznitsa co-directed with fellow VGIK student Marat Magambetov, more indication of Loznita’s future direction was given by ZHIZN’, OSEN’, a leisurely paced but highly conceptual portrait of traditional Russian country life by Smolensk. Nostalgia capable of shedding its anachronistic patina overlayers the twinkling images. What dominates here is the picture of an era in which the human being behind the still life becomes visible outside the confines of the clearly defined black-and-white surface. Whatever material deprivations are suffered, assets remain: the basic components of a certain happiness.
- Cinematographer: Vladimir Bashta
- Sound: Aleksandr Zakrzhevskiy
- Producer: Ulrich Miller
- Production Company: pop tutu film - Germany