The Train Stop

Polustanok

Speedy passing trains are tearing the silence of a small railway station. Despite the noise, the people waiting there are still sound asleep. Is there anything that could possibly wake them up? Sergei Loznitsa displays formalistic brilliance while depicting a slice of reality, as he employs the use of sound to illustrate the transition of Russian society from Communism towards a still unknown destination - at the end of the road, his heroes might finally wake up.
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Direction: Sergei Loznitsa
Script: Sergei Loznitsa
Cinematography: Pavel Kostomarov
Editing: Sergei Loznitsa
Sound: Alexander Zakarjewskiy
Production: Russia Studio OKNO
Co-production: RTR Vitaliy Manskiy
Format: Digital File
Color: B&W
Production Country: Russia
Production Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Contact: Deckert Distribution
Awards/Distinctions: Silver Dove – DOK Leipzig 2000 Award for Best Short Documentary – Ekaterinburg FF 2000 Award for Best Camera – Krakow IFF 2001 Award for Best Documentary– Lyon IFF 2001 Special Mention – Vila do Conde Short FF

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in Baranovichi, USSR (now Belarus), and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine. A graduate of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Applied Mathematics (1987), he began his career as a researcher in artificial intelligence at the Kyiv Institute of Cybernetics before turning to cinema. In 1997, he graduated from the prestigious VGIK film school in Moscow. Since 1996, Loznitsa has directed over 25 acclaimed documentaries and several narrative features. His debut fiction film, My Joy (2010), premiered in Competition at Cannes, followed by In the Fog (2012), winner of the FIPRESCI Prize, and Donbass (2018), which earned him the Best Director Award in Un Certain Regard. His documentaries Babi Yar. Context and Mr. Landsbergis (both 2021) received major prizes at Cannes and IDFA, respectively. In 2013, he founded his production company Atoms & Void.

Filmography

2005 Blockade (doc)
2010 My Joy
2012 In the Fog
2014 Maidan (doc)
2016 Austerlitz (doc)
2017 A Gentle Creature
2018 Donbass
2019 State Funeral (doc)
2021 Babi Yar. Context (doc)
2021 Mr Landsbergis (doc)
2022 The Natural History of Destruction (doc)
2024 The Invasion (doc)
2025 Two Prosecutors