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The Natural History of Destruction

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Jessica Kiang Variety 06/13/2022
Frustratingly equivocal, maintaining a curious, lofty distance from the horrors of the civilian war experience. Its most interesting ideas plume briefly, only to fizzle out like far-off firecrackers. Go to Full Review Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter 05/25/2022
Made with uncompromising intellectual rigor and singularity of purpose... Go to Full Review Fionnuala Halligan Screen International 05/25/2022
The Natural History of Destruction posits, voicelessly, that the world has looked away for so long that it has doomed itself to repeat these crimes, right now, even as you watch. Go to Full Review Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) 12/14/2022
Sebald's discomforting investigative essay about that ominous silence, published in 1999, finds a singular cinematic translation in this homonymous documentary [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Ricardo Gallegos La Estatuilla 10/13/2022
A devastating document [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Àngel Quintana Caimán Cuadernos de Cine 05/25/2022
By reviving the images of the past, [Loznitsa] reminds us... the human history of destruction repeats itself, the discourse staying the same. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Fontanka A 10/16/2024 Honestly and openly shows the nature of man and the behavior of people that leads to wars. Everyone should watch it now to get rid of illusions See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Sergei Loznitsa

Director

W. G. Sebald

Writer

Maria Baker-Choustova

Producer

Sergei Loznitsa

Producer

Christiaan Verbeek

Music

Regina Bouchehri

Producer

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Movie Info

Director
Sergei Loznitsa
Producer
Maria Baker-Choustova, Sergei Loznitsa, Regina Bouchehri, Gunnar Dedio, Uljana Kim
Screenwriter
W. G. Sebald
Production Co
Doco Digital, Atoms & Void, MDR, LooksFilm
Genre
Documentary, History
Original Language
German
Runtime
1h 42m