EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales outfit Coproduction Office is reteaming with Two Prosecutors director Sergei Loznitsa’s for his next film, the documentary Imperium.
The Ukrainian filmmaker is using archival footage shot between 1970 and 1973 by Italian filmmakers to create a visual journey through the Soviet Union.
The film now in production, aims to depict unfiltered glimpses of daily life from remote villages to Moscow and is edited without voiceover or commentary.
The film is produced by Philippe Bober for Coproduction Office’s label Essential Filmproduktion. Co-producers are France’s Société Parisienne de Production, Italy’s Kino Produzioni with RAI Cinema, and Lithuania’s Studio Uljana Kim, with the participation of Arte France Cinema, Istituto Luce and Cineteca Nazionale and in collaboration with AAMOD.
“I do not aim merely to open historical archives,” said Loznitsa. ”I wish to create a cinematic experience capable of conveying the scope of a vanished world, allowing a better understanding of the mechanisms of power, identity, and resistance that continue to define us today.”
Lotsnitza has directed 28 documentaries and five fiction films and won a slew of awards, including best director for Donbas at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2018. Coproduction Office previously handled sales for Loznitsa’s historical drama Two Prosecutors that made its world premiere in Cannes’ Competition last year.
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