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

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

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

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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