REVUE is based on archive propaganda newsreels produced in the USSR in the 50-s and 60-s. The film shows the almost forgotten side of the Soviet times and the way of thinking at that period. It explores the life of people all across the vast expanse of the Soviet Motherland, though full of hardship, deprivation and absurd rituals, but at the same time illuminated by the glorious shining of the communist illusion.

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documentary director
Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in Baranovichi, Belarus. He studied applied mathematics at Kiev until 1986, worked in cibernetics from 1987-91, and attended the VGIK film school in Moscow from 1991-96. In 2001 he received a European Nipkow Programme scholarship and moved to Germany, but continued to work in Russia.

Films:
1996 „Today we build a house“ (together with M. Magambetow)
1998 „Life, Autumn“ doc. (together with M. Magambetow)
2000 „The Train Stop“ doc. (together with RTR TV, Russia)
2001 „The Settlement“ doc. (production SPSDF, Russia)
2002 „Portrait“ doc. (production SPSDF, Russia)
2003 „Landscape“ doc. (production ma.ja.de., Germany)
2004 „Factory“ doc. (production SPSDF, Russia)
2005 “Blockade” doc. (production SPSDF, Russia)
2006 “Artel” doc. (production SPSDF, Russia)