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Austerlitz (Country: Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
There are places in Europe that have remained as painful memories of the past. People suffered and died there. These were factories where humans were turned into ash. Now these places are museums that tourists come to visit.
Babi Yar. Context (Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2021; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa)
Nazi troops massacre 33,771 Jews in Kyiv over a two-day period in September 1941.
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Donbass (Country: Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania; Year: 2018; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa; Stars: Valeriu Andriutã, Boris Kamorzin, Sergey Kolesov, Georgiy Deliev, Sergey Russkin, Alexander Zamuraev, Konstantin Itunin, Irina Plesnyayeva, Vadim Dubovsky, Svetlana Kolesova, Evgeny Chistyakov, Valeriu Andriutã, Boris Kamorzin, Sergey Kolesov, Georgiy Deliev)
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs.
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The Event (Sobytie) (Country: Netherlands, Belgium; Year: 2015; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa)
Archival documentary of a failed 1991 putsch that signalled the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Invasion (L’Invasion) (Country: Ukraine, Netherlands, France, US; Year: 2024; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
Life in Ukraine under the shadow of war.
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Maidan Maidan
Maidan and The Invasion
The Kiev Trial (Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
A forensic reconstruction of the trial of 15 people which took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators.
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Maidan (Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.
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The Old Jewish Cemetery (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2015; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
Story of the first Jewish cemetery in Riga, opened in 1725.
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