My Joy
Schastye Moe

Section
Sergei Loznitsa
Country
Ukraine, Germany, Netherlands
Year
2010
Runtime
127 min.
Production
Ma.Ja.De. Fiction [de], Sota Cinema [ua], Lemming Film [nl]
Director
Sergei Loznitsa
Writer
Sergei Loznitsa
Photographer
Oleg Mutu
Producer
Heino Deckert, Oleg Kokhan
Cast
Victor Nemets, Vlad Ivanov, Maria Varsami, Vladimir Golovin, Olga Shuvalova, Alexey Vertkov
Notes
Festivales: Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Sitges

Watch the trailer

Read more on IMDB

My Joy

The camera follows a man's body, someone is carrying it and buries it beyond under cement. This powerful and disturbing opening scene points the main subject of MY JOY, Sergei Loznitsa's portrait of the Soviet Union. Georgi, a truck driver, leaves his home and wife and starts a new trip. On the road, he misses the right exit and ends up in a Russian town, in the middle of nowhere. There, he will find all sorts of characters: a girl who knows exactly why she is selling her body, men marked by a strongly violent character...