at Cannes 2010 - German Film

In Competition
Screening:
Tuesday, 18 May, 19:00 h, Debussy Theater
(press)
Tuesday, 18 May, 22:30 h, Bazin Theater
(press)
Wednesday, 19 May, 22:30 h, Lumiere
Theater (premiere)
My Joy is a tale of the truck driver Georgy. He
leaves his home town with a load of goods, but
he is forced to take a wrong turn on the motorway,
and finds himself in the middle of no -
where. Georgy tries to find his way, but gradually,
against his will, he becomes drawn into the
daily life of a Russian village. In a place where
brutal force and survival instincts over come
humanity and common sense, the truck driver’s
story heads for a dead end …
Mein Glueck
MY JOY
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Pro duction 2010 Director Sergei Loznitsa
Screenplay Sergei Loznitsa Director of Photography Oleg Mutu Editor Danielius Kokanauskis
Production Design Kirill Shuvalov, Mare Raidma Producers Heino Deckert, Oleg Kokhan Co-
Producers Leontine Petit, Marleen Slot, Joost de Vries, Alexander Bohr Production Company ma.ja.de
fiction/Leipzig, in co-production with SOTA Cinema Group/Kiev, Lemming Film/Amsterdam, ZDF/Mainz,
ARTE/Strasbourg Principal Cast Viktor Nemets, Alisa Slepyan, Vladimir Golovin, Olga Shuvalova, Maria
Varsami, Boris Kamorzin, Vlad Ivanov Pavel Vorozhtsov, Dmitriy Bykovskiy Length 127 min Format 35 mm,
color, cs Original Version Russian Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festival Screenings Cannes 2010 (In Competition) With backing from Mitteldeutsche
Medienfoerderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MEDIA
Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in Baranovichi in the former USSR. He grew up in Kiev, and in 1987
graduat ed from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. From 1987-1991 he was employed
at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, working on artificial intelligence research. He also worked as a
translator for Japanese. In 1997 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). He
studied feature film making in the class of Nana Dzhordzhadze. From 2000-2008, he worked at the St.
Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. In 2001, he and his family moved to Germany. A selection of his awardwinning
films includes: the documentaries Today We Are Going to Build a House (1996), Life,
Autumn (1998), The Train Stop (2000), Settlement (2001), Portrait (2002), Landscape (2003),
Factory (2004), Blockade (2005), Artel (2006), Revue (2008), and the feature My Joy (2010).
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