In the Fog

    Genre
    Drama, History
  • |
    • Runtime
    127 mins
  • |
    • Rated
    NR
  • |
    • Release Date
    2012
  • |
    • Countries
    Germany, Russia, Belarus
  • |
    • Languages
    Russian
  • |
DIRECTED BY:
Sergey Loznitsa
WRITTEN BY:
Sergey Loznitsa, Vasiliy Bykov
CAST INCLUDES:
Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

A Russian man, desperate to save his dignity, is given an impossible moral choice after he is accused of collaboration with the Nazis. IN THE FOG, from director/writer Sergey Loznitsa (DONBASS, MY JOY) is "an intense, slow-burning and haunting drama" (Guardian) that won the hearts of critics and took home the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

SYNOPSIS

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.

In the Fog

    Genre
    Drama, History
  • |
    • Runtime
    127 mins
  • |
    • Rated
    NR
  • |
    • Release Date
    2012
  • |
    • Countries
    Germany, Russia, Belarus
  • |
    • Languages
    Russian
  • |
DIRECTED BY
Sergey Loznitsa
WRITTEN BY
Sergey Loznitsa, Vasiliy Bykov
CAST INCLUDES
Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov
A Russian man, desperate to save his dignity, is given an impossible moral choice after he is accused of collaboration with the Nazis. IN THE FOG, from director/writer Sergey Loznitsa (DONBASS, MY JOY) is "an intense, slow-burning and haunting drama" (Guardian) that won the hearts of critics and took home the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.

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