
Civil Status
A brilliant observational documentary filmed at the Civil Registry office in St. Petersburg, where people come to have births, marriages, divorces and deaths registered. 'It’s like a theatre here', one says in the beginning of the film, and it indeed is, the Theater of Life. The young women working in the office have a job that shifts from being verbally attacked and called idiots, to situations where they are subject to flirt, or where they master the happy ceremony of marriage. Faces, joy, sorrow, fun, despair... It’s all very well composed, rhythmical, with atmosphere conveyed, and lives up to what a documentary should be: multilayered and universal. And about Life.
Civil Status
June 29, 2005
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Directing

Alina Rudnitskaya
Director
Writing

Alina Rudnitskaya
Screenplay
Production

Vyacheslav Telnov
Producer

Alexey Telnov
Producer
Sound

Dmitry Aksenov
Music
Art
No data availableCamera

Alexander Filippov
Director of Photography
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Larisa Solovtsova
Editor