Screenplay: Sergei Loznitsa
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sergei Loznitsa. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
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
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
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
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
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
In the Fog
2012 · Movie · 127 min. · Belarus
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Cast Vladimir Svirski · Vladislav Abashin · Sergeï Kolesov · Vlad Ivanov
Plot Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. A train is derailed not far from the village,...
5.7
958 votes
5.7
958 votes
Austerlitz
2016 · Documentary · 94 min. · Germany
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot There are places in Europe that have remained as painful memories of the past—factories where humans were turned into ash. These places are now memorial sites that are open to...
5.7
141 votes
5.7
141 votes
Letter (S)
2013 · Documentary · 21 min. · United States
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot A remote village in the North-West of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In...
5.7
32 votes
5.7
32 votes
Donbass
2018 · Movie · 120 min. · Ukraine
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Cast Valeriu Andriuta · Evgeny Chistyakov · Georgi Deliyev · Vadim Dubovsky
Plot When we call “peace” the war, when the propaganda is presented as the truth, when we call “love” the hatred, it is there that the life begins to look like...
5.5
809 votes
5.5
809 votes
Artel
2006 · Documentary · 30 min. · Russia
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Plot It's Winter, a man is drilling the ice. Time is suspended, the sound fills the sequence. Focused on an apparently banal situation –someone is trying to catch a fish under...
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