Revue
Sergei Loznitsa, 2008, 83 min

In Revue, Sergei Loznitsa researched footage from the 1950s and 1960s, selecting excerpts from newsreels, propaganda films, TV shows and feature films that present a portrait – in images – of Soviet life during the same period. The film's fascinating flow of disparate scenes representing a certain idea – and ideal – of Soviet life, appear, from today's perspective, as alternately poignant, funny, and tragic. The cumulative impact reveals a life of hardship, deprivation, and seemingly absurd social rituals, but one always inspired by the vision, or illusion, of a communist dream.

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Screening as part of Blockade, Landscape & Revue: 3 Films by Sergei Loznitsa