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.
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Annett Schütze Director · Aleksandrs Grebņevs Cinematographer
First release September 10, 2004 · Produced in Germany, Latvia · Languages Latvian, Russian
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Kino Kombat
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Germany · Latvia
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Original title
Moskačka
Original language
Latvian
Spoken on screen
Latvian · Russian
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Latvia · September 10, 2004
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