Description
Synopsis:
A poetic documentary film about the Leningrad tram in the early 1970s. An undetected camera shows up portraits of people at the time, which has been lost forever, and the streets of the city on the Neva and its mood. The film’s story begins in the morning and ends at night; it is as we have spent an entire day with Leningraders on the tram. It is worth noting that the seasons change on this day, going through a complete yearly cycle.
About the director:
Lyudmila Stanukinas
(25.11.1930 – 08.07.2020)
Pavel Kogan and Lyudmila Stanukinas, two of the leading lights of the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio. They are known all over the world for the films they made from the 1960s to the 1980s, which won prizes at many film festivals, as well as for the film Pavel and Lyalya: A Jerusalem Romance, by their pupil and colleague Viktor Kosakovsky.
Kogan and Stanukinas came to the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio in the last years of the Khrushchev thaw. Pavel’s second film – Look at the Face (1966), strikingly innovative for its time, became an emblem of the new documentary film. Lyudmila Stanukinas directed mostly biographical films, and her first film, Moving Day, won the Silver Dragon at the Krakow film festival.
In 1998 Pavel Kogan died. After her husband’s death, Lyudmila Stanukinas lived in Jerusalem. Every year she would return to Russia to attend the Message to Man festival. In 2001 Lyalya established the Pavel Kogan Prize at the festival, for the best Russian film made in the traditions of the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio.