Imperium review - Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union
Sergei Loznitsa’s new documentary, Imperium, uses archival footage shot by an Italian crew in the 1970s to depict daily life in the Soviet Union. The film avoids voiceover and interviews, focusing instead on an ethnographic, observational look at the era.
Why it matters
It provides a rare, unmediated visual record of life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
Stolidly grim … Imperium. Photograph: Essential Filmproduktion, Kino Produzioni, Société Parisienne de Production, Studio Uljana Kim - footage courtesy of AAMOD Stolidly grim … Imperium. Photograph: Essential Filmproduktion, Kino Produzioni, Société Parisienne de Production, Studio Uljana Kim - footage courtesy of AAMOD Movies Review Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like
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