Moskatchka

Overview

Once you stand still, things will come up to you. (Gottfried Benn) Using tableau-like takes of different places of the Muscovite suburb (Moskatchka), a poor quarter of the Latvian capital Riga, the film shows fragments of the choreography of life and combines them to form a picture of reality. Without making any comments, the camera observes the people’s behaviour, which reminds you of the early Flaherty and how his camera “stuck to” his film heroes . It also reminds you of the beginning of film art when the recording of reality on a strip of film was an event, in spite of its accidental character.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 10, 2004

Original language

Latvian

Spoken languages

Latvian, Russian

Countries

Germany, Latvia

Production

Kino Kombat,Screen Vision

Director

Annett Schütze

Writer

Annett Schütze

Producer

Laima Freimane,Fred Kelemen

Cinematography

Aleksandrs Grebņevs

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt0870939