Sergei Loznitsa Movies

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes...

A comprehensive chronicle of the consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. How citizens live in wartime, how violence and death condition...

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and...

Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941. Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Alexey is shooting a movie about himself. He is in search of a boyfriend. Everything would be alright, if Alexey's mother could accept his sexuality....

The film observes visitors to a Holocaust memorial site on a former concentration camp, exploring their reasons for visiting and what they seek, and...

A visual journey through the vastness of the Soviet Union, composed exclusively of archival footage shot between 1970 and 1973 by a group of Italian...

June 2023, one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. In Kyiv, a class is visiting the Natural History Museum, guided by a paleontology teacher who...

In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's...

A critical and objective look back at Ukraine's tumultuous and tragic history, from its mythical founding in the 10th century to the Russian invasion...

'Artel' portrays one day in the life of a small fisher community in the north of Russia.

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity,...

It was filmed in rural Russia, near the city of Smolensk. It shows a small village, where all young people are gone and only older people are left.

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in...

Is it morally acceptable to use the civilian population as yet another tool for waging war? Is it possible to justify death and destruction for the...

The film shows life in contemporary Sarajevo as reflected through glass covers of the black-and-white photos of its defenders, taken by the Bosnian...

The images comprise only of material Sergei Loznitsa found in the Moscow film archives about the siege of Leningrad during World War II. By providing...

This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests...

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

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...