Description
The Hermitage Museum. Visitors gather around a tour guide. “You are standing before Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Madonna Litta. Look at her face: it is beautiful.” A hidden camera studies the faces of the people assembled in the museum with the same “careful, attentive, loving regard for the human being” as da Vinci’s painting itself.
About the director:
Pavel Kogan
Director, Honoured Artist of Russia. Born in Leningrad in 1931. His films Look at the Face and A Military Band became key works of the Leningrad Studio of Documentary Film (LSDF). Together with cinematographer Pyotr Mostovoy he helped shape a distinctive language of Leningrad documentary cinema, one that values the human face, the telling detail, and the independent life of the material observed.