A Chronicle of Reality

The film "The Chronicle of Reality" is about the Leningrad-St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Among the heroes of the film are not only famous film directors who shot films at the studio in different years, such as Mikhail Litvyakov, Alexander Sokurov, Victor Kosakovsky, Efim and Alekxey Uchitel, Edgar Bartenev, Pavel Kogan, Evgeny Yufit, Sergey Loznitsa, Nikolai Obukhovich, Lyudmila Stanukinas, but also employees of other professions. Without the energy of all these people, a unique phenomenon in the history of cinematography, the Leningrad-St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, would not have been born. The studio was created to shoot propaganda films under the control of communist ideology and managed to shoot lyrical pictures. These films still excite the viewer. The creative opposition of directors, screenwriters and cameramen was able to create, under the conditions of strict censorship, a unique language of film expression, based not on words but on images. "Chronicle of Reality" is a film about how the oldest film studio is imperceptibly changing, and how the country and its people are changing along with it.