Civil Status

Synopsis

A brilliant observational documentary filmed at the Civil Registry office in St. Petersburg, where people come to have births, marriages, divorces and deaths registered. 'It’s like a theatre here', one says in the beginning of the film, and it indeed is, the Theater of Life. The young women working in the office have a job that shifts from being verbally attacked and called idiots, to situations where they are subject to flirt, or where they master the happy ceremony of marriage. Faces, joy, sorrow, fun, despair... It’s all very well composed, rhythmical, with atmosphere conveyed, and lives up to what a documentary should be: multilayered and universal. And about Life.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Alina Rudnitskaya
Camera	Director of Photography	Alexander Filippov
Writing	Screenplay	Alina Rudnitskaya
Production	Producer	Alexey Telnov Vyacheslav Telnov
Editing	Editor	Larisa Solovtsova
Sound	Music	Dmitry Aksenov
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