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

The Settlement

2002 · Documentary · 77 min. · Russia

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

7.3

37 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

6.9

34 votes

6.9

34 votes

Factory

2004 · Documentary · 30 min. · Russia

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

6.9

85 votes

6.9

85 votes

Portrait

2002 · Documentary · 29 min. · Russia

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

6.8

65 votes

6.8

65 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

The Halt (S)

2000 · Documentary · 25 min. · Russia

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

6.6

85 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