Direction: Sergei Loznitsa
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sergei Loznitsa. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Babi Yar. Context
2021 · Documentary · 120 min. · Ukraine
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Cast Vladimir Mijailovich Artobolevski · Hans Isenmann · Dina Pronicheva
Plot Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
7.4
76 votes
7.4
76 votes
Blockade
2006 · Documentary · 51 min. · Russia
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot The longest siege during World War II was that of Leningrad, which lasted for 900 days, from September 1941 to January 1944, when Hitler attempted to starve the Soviet city...
7.4
197 votes
7.4
197 votes
The Natural History of Destruction
2022 · Documentary · 112 min. · Germany
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot Based on the book by German writer W.G. Sebald, examines the perception and processing of the phenomenon of mass destruction of the German civilian population in European post-war literature.
7.3
113 votes
7.3
113 votes
7.3
37 votes
Landscape
2003 · Documentary · 60 min. · Russia
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot It's winter. We are in a bus stop in a small village. People are waiting for a bus and they talk. Listening to their conversations the viewer can imagine the...
7.3
27 votes
7.3
27 votes
Revue
2008 · Documentary · 82 min. · Russia
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot As he did with his critically-acclaimed BLOCKADE, a documentary re-creation of the WWII siege of Leningrad, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has once again scoured the Russian film archives for REVUE, selecting...
7.0
31 votes
7.0
31 votes
Life, Autumn
1998 · Documentary · 35 min. · Russia
Direction Sergei Loznitsa · Marat Magambetov
6.9
34 votes
6.9
34 votes
State Funeral
2019 · Documentary · 135 min. · Netherlands
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Cast Joseph Stalin
Plot A documentary of found footage that chronicles the four days leading up to the funeral of Joseph Stalin.
6.6
105 votes
6.6
105 votes
6.6
85 votes
A Night at the Opera (S)
2020 · Documentary · 19 min. · France
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Cast Maria Callas · Brigitte Bardot · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Jean Cocteau
Plot A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.
6.3
62 votes
6.3
62 votes
Maidan
2014 · Documentary · 128 min. · Ukraine
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
6.2
179 votes
6.2
179 votes
The Trial
2018 · Documentary · 125 min. · Netherlands
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot Moscow, USSR. 1930. The Pillar Hall of the State House of the Unions. A group of top rank economists and engineers is put on trial accused of plotting a coup...
6.2
37 votes
6.2
37 votes
My Joy
2010 · Movie · 127 min. · Ukraine
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Cast Viktor Nemets · Vlad Ivanov · Olga Shuvalova · Vladimir Golovin
Plot Truck driver Georgy (Viktor Nemets) leaves his home town with a load of goods, but he is forced to take a wrong turning on the motorway, and finds himself in...
6.1
283 votes
6.1
283 votes
The Event
2015 · Documentary · 74 min. · Netherlands
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot 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...
6.1
130 votes
6.1
130 votes
Bridges of Sarajevo
2014 · Documentary · 110 min. · France
Direction Aida Begic · Leonardo di Costanzo · Jean-Luc Godard · Kamen Kalev
Cast Bogdan Ninkovic · Fedja Stamenkovic · Andrej Ivancic · Nikola Brkovic
Plot 13 Europeans directors explore the theme of Sarajevo and what this city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. From different...
6.1
39 votes
6.1
39 votes
A Gentle Creature
2017 · Movie · 143 min. · France
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Cast Vasilina Makovtseva · Marina Kleshcheva · Liya Akhedzhakova · Valeriu Andriuta
Plot It is inspired by Dostoyevsky’s 1876 short story 'A Gentle Creature'. A woman travels to a prison in a remote region to find out what has happened to her incarcerated...
5.9
147 votes
5.9
147 votes
Victory Day
2018 · Documentary · 94 min. · Germany
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot Sergei Loznitsa focuses on the 2017 Victory Day celebrations at Berlin's Soviet War Memorial.
5.8
55 votes
5.8
55 votes
The Miracle of Saint Anthony
2012 · Documentary · 40 min. · Portugal
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot In the middle of June the village of Santo Antonio de Mixões da Serra in the Valdreu region of Northern Portugal honours its Patron Saint with a very special festival....
5.8
21 votes
5.8
21 votes