ESPECIAL SERGEI LOZNITSA

Zhizn, osin (1999) aka Life, Autumn

Runtime: 35
Language: Russian (not much, mostly sung)
Country: Russia
Color: black and white
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229075/

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Description: 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. There is shortage of basic material necessities, but at the same time they are in possession of the simple, but most important core values and elements of life: their Village, Time, Friends and Family, Children, Wedding, Thunderstorm, Morning, Conversation, Happiness, Death, Sun, Winter, and Love.

(from: http://www.loznitsa.com/eng/film_osen.html)

LINKS DE DESCARGA:
http://rapidshare.com/files/260379756/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Zhizn.Osen._Life.autumn_._1998_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260386695/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Zhizn.Osen._Life.autumn_._1998_.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260393367/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Zhizn.Osen._Life.autumn_._1998_.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260400208/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Zhizn.Osen._Life.autumn_._1998_.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260400299/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Zhizn.Osen._Life.autumn_._1998_.part5.rar

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Polustanok (2000) aka The Train Stop

Runtime: 25 min.
Language: no dialogue
Country: Russia
Color: black and white
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266861/

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Description: Speeding trains slice through the silence of the small train stop. The whistle on the locomotive and the thunder of the wheels disappear into the night, but fail to wake up people at the station. People just continue to sleep. What do they wait for? What will wake them up?

(from: http://www.loznitsa.com/eng/film_halt.html)

LINKS DE DESCARGA:
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Fabrika aka Factory (2004)

Runtime: 30 min.
Language: no dialogue
Country: Russia
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1003141/

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Description: Masculine and feminine, hard and soft, continues and interrupted, whole and fragmented. All that is encompassed by just one day at the factory.

LINKS DE DESCARGA:
http://rapidshare.com/files/260316883/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Fabrika._Factory_._2004_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260325239/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Fabrika._Factory_._2004_.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260333146/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Fabrika._Factory_._2004_.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260338764/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Fabrika._Factory_._2004_.part4.rar

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Poselenie aka Settlement (2001)

Runtime: 77:30
Language: no dialogue
Country: Russia
Color: black and white
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290031/

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Description: This movie is about a day in life of the settlement for people with mental problems. Located in a peaceful countryside, it conveys an image of a pure, happy place, where people live and work together, in complete harmony. But there is a growing unexplainable feeling of anxiety and hopelessness.

(from http://www.loznitsa.com/eng/film_settlement.html)

LINKS DE DESCARGA:
http://rapidshare.com/files/260239705/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260247124/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260255082/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260263288/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260271989/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260280269/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260288378/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260297501/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260305941/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/260306972/Sergei.Loznitsa.-.Poselenie._Settlement_._2001_.part10.rar

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Predstavleniye (2008) aka Revue

Runtime: 80
Language: Russian (English hardsubs)
Country: Rusia
Color: B&W
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1325619/

Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Cast:
N/A

Description: 2008 title from Russian experimental director Sergei Loznitsa, who creates his films entirely from found footage, old Soviet propaganda films, etc. If you've seen his BLOCKADE, you'll know what to expect. This is even better.

From Indiewire: "With scenes taken from the length and breadth of the “Soviet Motherland,” "Revue" illustrates industry and agriculture, political life, popular culture, and technology. The film’s fascinating flow of disparate scenes representing typical Soviet life of the period is, seen from today’s perspective, alternately poignant, funny, and tragic. The archival excerpts reveal a life of hardship, deprivation and seemingly absurd social rituals, but one always inspired by the vision, or illusion, of a communist future. Seen from these dual historical and contemporary perspectives, "Revue" is both a nostalgic and instructive look back at a communist past that represents social engineering on a grand, and frightening, scale."

LINKS DE DESCARGA:
http://rapidshare.com/files/208182416/Predstavlenie.2008.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/208182690/Predstavlenie.2008.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/208182967/Predstavlenie.2008.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/208183405/Predstavlenie.2008.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/208183650/Predstavlenie.2008.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/208183809/Predstavlenie.2008.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/208183786/Predstavlenie.2008.part7.rar

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Blokada (2006)

Runtime: 52 min
Language: English | Russian
Country: Russia
Color: Black and White
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0826039/

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Description: 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 of three million people into submission. Estimates of the number of residents who died from starvation, disease or cold range from 641,000 to 800,000.

Comprised solely of rarely-seen footage found in Soviet film archives by director Sergei Losnitsa, BLOCKADE vividly re-creates those momentous events, featuring a meticulously reconstructed, state-of-the-art soundtrack added to the original black-and-white silent footage. The result gives viewers the eerie impression of being not just an observer but virtually a participant in the events as they unfold on the streets of Leningrad.

BLOCKADE is organized episodically, beginning with defensive measures, including artillery emplacements, anti-tank fortifications, trenches, and observation balloons; the devastating effect of artillery shelling and aerial bombing of the city; the marching of captured German soldiers through the streets, surrounded by taunting Soviet crowds; the corpses lying on street corners or dragged on sleds to mortuaries for eventual burial in mass graves; citizens desperately foraging for food, water and firewood; the joyous celebrations upon the breaking of the siege and the disturbing aftermath.

BLOCKADE is a dramatically compelling demonstration of the power of archival footage, here synergized by an evocative soundtrack, to bring history to life.

"Recommended! Very well done... A valuable contribution to those studying the impact of war." — Educational Media Reviews Online

"Grand Prize for the strength and purity of its vision, its beauty and its startling, yet tragic insight into the aftermath of war." —Jury of the 2006 Krakow Film Festival

"Absorbing... poignant viewing! Shots of burning and later devastated buildings are backed by a soundtrack of sirens and raging flames. Sounds of soft weeping are matched to imagery of mass graves, which still have power to shock. Later on, dead, shrouded bodies are seen littering the streets, but most of the pedestrians, by this point so inured to the sight, simply walk past." —Variety

“Remarkable! Loznitsa's haunting film presents many stark images of the conflict. The sight of historic St. Petersburg, already impoverished before the war began, and now on the brink of utter desolation, is a disturbing one, as inhabitants struggle with the double-pronged menace of the bitter winter and warfare itself.”—Krakow Life

LINKS DE DESCARGA:
http://rapidshare.com/files/118391324/slB06-1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118394203/slB06-1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118397225/slB06-1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118399972/slB06-1.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118402712/slB06-1.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118405711/slB06-1.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118409097/slB06-1.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118409815/slB06-1.part8.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/118414159/slB06-2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118417835/slB06-2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118420550/slB06-2.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118422945/slB06-2.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118425202/slB06-2.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118427309/slB06-2.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118429570/slB06-2.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118429953/slB06-2.part8.rar


CONTRASEÑA: lovermanUK

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Portret (2002) aka Portrait

Runtime: 29
Language: Silent
Country: Russia
Color: Black and White
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338353/

Director: Sergei Loznitsa


Description:

People in a landscape with a dilapidating wooden village in the background. A year from winter to winter between the sky and water. Men and woman were assigned their places, they stand on them without a single move. They look and wait at the peripheries of their lives, faces, hands, eyes, clothes. Every one of them holds an attribute of their work, even the slightest detail suddenly becomes a sociological fact. The film introduces the situations of long looks of people, who do not move. Anything in the land can move, but they won´t.

LINKS DE DESCARGA:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/veMZ8tQ

CONTRASEÑA: NINGUNA

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Artel (2006)

Runtime: 31
Language: Russian
Country: Russia
Color: Black and White
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898088/

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Description:

A classic of Russian documentary film he also stamps his typical hallmark on his latest film. Long shots fragmented with fade-outs, a sophisticated composition and the effective use of 35 mm black-and-white film. Loznitsa is able to raise seeming banality to the status of an artistic testimony indirectly reminiscent of the classics of Russian cinematography. On this occasion, he takes his camera along to record an attempt to catch fish in a frozen lake in the middle of the snowy Russian plains. In this harsh natural environment, four young men try to rip from the frozen depths of nature something which will provide them with a livelihood.

LINKS DE DESCARGA:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/ZrpUTzW

CONTRASEÑA: NINGUNA