Movie Details
Original Language:Latvian
Production Companies:Kino Kombat Screen Vision
Moskatchka on the Web:Official Website
Moskatchka
DirectorAnnett Schütze
WriterAnnett Schütze
1 hr 30 minDocumentary
Plot
Once you stand still things will come up to you Gottfried Benn Using tableaulike 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 peoples 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
