Victory Day

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Victory Day

2018

1h 34m

Documentary

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The 2017 Victory Day celebrations at Berlin's Soviet War Memorial.

Michael Pattinson

Sight & Sound

03/08/2018

The filmmaker simultaneously gives us everything and nothing... it's the combination of tight framing and the evident distance between the camera and its subjects that creates Victory Day's chief artistic attributes of intimacy and detachment.

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Jessica Kiang

Variety

02/21/2018

"Victory Day" seems so simple, but it is properly complex: a conflicted memorial to a conflicted memorial.

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

04/30/2020

Very interesting documentary film exercise. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Tanner Tafelski

Hyperallergic

10/30/2019

Victory Day reflects Loznitsa's enduring preoccupation with communities engaging with, or enmeshed in the creation of history.

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Patrick Gamble

CineVue

05/24/2019

3/5

A rounded portrait of humanity, and how memories are not perfect reconstructions of the past, Victory Day is a subtle study of patriotism and the complex relationship between time and memory.

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Sarah Ward

Goethe-Institute Australien Magazine

07/31/2018

Peers at a place brimming with history and watches the people who walk across the site, turning their reactions into an observational portrait of humanity processing the past.

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Synopsis

The 2017 Victory Day celebrations at Berlin's Soviet War Memorial.

Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Producer: Sergei Loznitsa
Screenwriter: Sergei Loznitsa
Production Co: Imperativ Film, Tauras Films, RBB
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Russian
Runtime: 1h 34m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)