Moskatchka - 2004

Moskatchka 2004 Directed by Annett Schütze Moskačka

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.

Country Latvia

Production Countries Germany , Latvia

Language Latvian

Spoken Languages Latvian , Russian

Gnere Documentary

Production Companies Screen Vision , Kino Kombat

Release Date 10 September 2004

90 mins