Austerlitz

There are places in Europe that have remained as painful reminders of the past – factories where humans were turned into ash. These places are now memorial sites that are open to the public and receive thousands of tourists every year. But how do visitors behave nowadays? How easily can a concentration camp turn into a theme park and how can the Holocaust become a tourist attraction? The film, whose title refers to the eponymous novel written by W. G. Sebald, reminds us that oblivion is the safest path to human atrocity.
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Script: Sergei Loznitsa
Cinematography: Sergei Loznitsa, Jesse Mazuch
Editing: Danielius Kokanauskis
Sound: Vladimir Golovnitski
Production: Imperativ Film
Producers: Sergei Loznitsa
Format: B&W
Production Country: Germany
Production Year: 2016
Duration: 94
Contact: Imperativ Film info@loznitsa.com

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