Окончила факультет филологии НГУ. Работала библиотекарем, корреспондентом, редактором. Училась в Школе документального кино Марины Разбежкиной и Михаила Угарова.
Jacob Janzen was arrested in 1938 and his family never saw him since. 80 years later his great-granddaughter Maria Lotsmanova comes to the Federal Security Service (FSB) archive to find out his fate.
