Schastye Moe
My Joy
Russia, present day, summer: Truck driver Georgy picks up his latest
load and heads off for the motorway. Along his journey, Georgy encounters all sorts of enigmatic characters: An an old man
tells Georgy the sobering story of his return from the German front in 1946 and disappears thereupon. Having driven into a
traffic jam, a teenage prostitute offers to show him a short-cut – along with her services – and abandons him at a village
market. Finally, Georgy ends up lost in a field. By now, night has fallen and his truck has broken down. Three tramps invite
Georgy for a meal by the fire and offer him a drink. However, their meal ends violently and abruptly.
Director's Biography
Sergei Loznitsa was born 1964 in Belarus and grew up in the
Ukraine. Graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow in 1997. He has been making documentary
films since 1996 and has received numerous national and international awards. In 2010 Loznitsa’s feature debut MY JOY premiered
in the main competition at the Festival de Cannes followed by IN THE FOG in 2012 and MAIDAN in 2014. SEGODNYA MY POSTROIM
DOM (Today We Are Going To Build A House, co-directed by Marat Magambetov, 1996, short doc), ZHIZN, OSEN (Life, Autumn, co-directed
by Marat Magambetov, 1998, short doc), POLUSTANOK (The Train Stop, 2000, short doc), POSELENIJE (The Settlement, 2001, doc),
PORTRET (Portrait, 2002, short doc), PEYZAZH (Landscape, 2003, doc), FABRIKA (Factory, 2004, short doc), BLOKADA (Blockade,
2005, doc), ARTEL (2006, short doc), SEVERNY SVET (Northern Light, 2008, doc), PREDSTAVLENYE (Revue, 2009, doc), SCHASTYE
MOE (My Joy, 2010), V TUMANE (In The Fog, 2012; CE '13), O MILAGRE DE SANTO ANTÓNIO (The Miracle of Saint Anthony, 2012, short
doc), PISMO (The Letter, 2012, short doc), REFLECTIONS. DIRECTOR'S CUT (2014, short doc), MAIDAN (2014, doc), THE OLD JEWISH
CEMETERY (2014, short doc)
Tribute · Eröffnungsfilme | Opening
Films 2015
Sergei
Loznitsa
Germany / Ukraine
/ Netherlands 2010
color
127 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Sergei Loznitsa
Cinematography
Oleg Mutu (R.S.C.)
Editing
Danielius Kokanauskis
Sound/Sounddesign Vladimir
Golovnitzkiy
With Viktor
Nemec, Dmitry Bykowski, Paul Vorozhtsov, Olga Shuvalov, Vladimir Golovin, Alex Vertkov, Yuri Sviridenko, Maria Warsi, Vlad
Ivanov, Boris Kamorzin, Timothy Tribuntsev
Producer(s)
Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de. fiction), Oleg Kokhan (SOTA Cinema Group) KoproduzentInnen / Co-Producers M. Slot, L. Petit, J.
de Vries (Lemming Film), A. Bohr (ZDF/ARTE) Koproduktion / Co-Production Lemming Film (NL), ZDF/ARTE (DE/FR)
Production
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