Severny Svet
Northern Light
Just before winter cloaks everything in the Arctic night, a few hours
of daylight linger in late autumn in the village of Sumskoy Posad, one thousand kilometers north of Saint Petersburg, in Karelia,
on the shores of the White Sea. Linked to the rest of the country by a vague muddy track and a stretch of railway line, the
village lives in a suspended and mysterious dimension. This is the Russia of endless forests and potato fields. A few robust
and uncompromising characters work calmly there, driven by no vital needs. This is a still happy and cold Russia.
Director's Biography
Sergei Loznitsa was born 1964 in Belarus and grew up in the
Ukraine. Graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow in 1997. He has been making documentary
films since 1996 and has received numerous national and international awards. In 2010 Loznitsa’s feature debut MY JOY premiered
in the main competition at the Festival de Cannes followed by IN THE FOG in 2012 and MAIDAN in 2014. SEGODNYA MY POSTROIM
DOM (Today We Are Going To Build A House, co-directed by Marat Magambetov, 1996, short doc), ZHIZN, OSEN (Life, Autumn, co-directed
by Marat Magambetov, 1998, short doc), POLUSTANOK (The Train Stop, 2000, short doc), POSELENIJE (The Settlement, 2001, doc),
PORTRET (Portrait, 2002, short doc), PEYZAZH (Landscape, 2003, doc), FABRIKA (Factory, 2004, short doc), BLOKADA (Blockade,
2005, doc), ARTEL (2006, short doc), SEVERNY SVET (Northern Light, 2008, doc), PREDSTAVLENYE (Revue, 2009, doc), SCHASTYE
MOE (My Joy, 2010), V TUMANE (In The Fog, 2012; CE '13), O MILAGRE DE SANTO ANTÓNIO (The Miracle of Saint Anthony, 2012, short
doc), PISMO (The Letter, 2012, short doc), REFLECTIONS. DIRECTOR'S CUT (2014, short doc), MAIDAN (2014, doc), THE OLD JEWISH
CEMETERY (2014, short doc)
Tribute 2015
Sergei
Loznitsa
France / Russia
2008
color
52 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Cinematography
Sergei Mikhalchuk
Sound/Sounddesign
Vladimir Golovnitzkiy
Producer(s) Serge Lalou (Les Films d’Ici) Koproduktion / Co-Production Musée du
quai Branly (FR), ARTE France (FR)
Production
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