Sergey Vladimirovich Loznica

Sergey Loznitsa is a Ukrainian documentary director. Loznitsa comes from the Brest region. In 1987, he was awarded a diploma in the specialty “Mathematical Engineer” of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. For four years after graduation, the future film director worked as a researcher at the Institute of Cybernetics, while studying Japanese. Sergey’s works are recognized in Europe, on his account about forty awards of various film festivals, including the Oberhausen, Berlin and Leipzig festivals and more

Sergey Loznitsa is a Ukrainian documentary director.

Loznitsa comes from the Brest region. In 1987, he was awarded a diploma in the specialty “Mathematical Engineer” of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. For four years after graduation, the future film director worked as a researcher at the Institute of Cybernetics, while studying Japanese.
Sergey’s works are recognized in Europe, on his account about forty awards of various film festivals, including the Oberhausen, Berlin and Leipzig festivals and Nika.
At the end of VGIK, there was practically no opportunity to shoot game pictures. The first scenario of the game tape based on the work of Vasil Bykov "In the Fog" It was written by the director in 2001. He often repeated in his interviews that, starting the shooting of any picture, you need to be ready to take responsibility on your shoulders.
Loznitsa believes that people do not understand what happened to the country in the fifties and sixties, and they are unlikely to have enough energy to realize it fully. When the film "Submission" was shown in Kiev, a sobbing girl approached Loznica and said that she understood and forgave her grandparents who scolded their country.
Loznitsa took his own archival materials in the St. Petersburg documentary studio, and in parts collected shots of Soviet cinematic chronicles. Filming often took place in remote sparsely populated parts of the country.

In 2000, Sergey began to cooperate with the studio of documentary films in St. Petersburg, and a year later he and his family went to Germany. According to the director, the reasons for leaving were enough. This was connected not only with work, but also with the opportunity to open the world, since it was possible to fly to the capital of each European state in just an hour.