Developing. The Leningrad School of Documentary Cinema

In 1946, the Leningrad Newsreel Studio moved into the building on Kryukov Canal and, like any Soviet studio, operated within the system of state commission. Documentarians filmed the city’s largest events and the successes of Leningrad’s industry. From time to time, though, auteur cinema also emerged inside that production machine. It was made by various people, in different decades, yet it shared a great deal: lyric humanism and a poetic sense of the everyday on one side; Aesopian language, an interest in the person inside the epoch, and an eye for the gap between the official and the human on the other. Read more