Victory day
Director
Sergei Loznitsa
Producer
Sergei Loznitsa,
Andrey Mikhailov
Rights Holder
Imperativ Film
DOP
Sergei Loznitsa, Diego García, Jesse Mazuch
Production
Imperativ Film, Taura Ltd.
Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory.
Sergei Loznitsa
Award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker. Born in Belarus in 1964. In 1987 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic. In 1987–1991 worked at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics specializing in artificial intelligence research. In 1997 graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he studied feature filmmaking. In 2013 founded a film production company ATOMS & VOID. Works both in documentary and feature genres (MY JOY (2010), IN THE FOG (2012), MAIDAN (2014), AUSTERLITZ (2016) and others).
Selected filmography
2017 A Gentle Creature
2016 Austerlitz
2014 Maidan
2012 In the Fog
2010 My Joy