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In September 1941, on the banks of the Babi Yar ravine, some 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children were rounded up, shot, and buried in the loose sand. It was the beginning
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Keep ReadingThe Trial and Donbass (Netherlands, 127 min.; Germany/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania, 121 min.) Dir. Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Loznitsa must be unique in the history of film in working in three distinct modes. This year, madman that he
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Victory Day, Sergei Loznitsa’s new film, takes place in the present and serves as a sort of companion piece to Austerlitz.Â
Keep ReadingSergei Loznitsa's Austerlitz is an immersion in the absence of meaning, becoming a sort of nihilistic totem to the impossibility of understanding.
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