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The Natural History of Destruction

Play trailer Poster for The Natural History of Destruction 2022,  1h 42m,  Documentary/ History Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 89% 9 Reviews Tomatometer - - Popcornmeter
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Jessica Kiang Variety Jun 13, 2022
Frustratingly equivocal, maintaining a curious, lofty distance from the horrors of the civilian war experience. Its most interesting ideas plume briefly, only to fizzle out like far-off firecrackers. Go to Full Review
Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter May 25, 2022
Made with uncompromising intellectual rigor and singularity of purpose... Go to Full Review
Fionnuala Halligan Screen International May 25, 2022
The Natural History of Destruction posits, voicelessly, that the world has looked away for so long that it has doomed itself to repeat these crimes, right now, even as you watch. Go to Full Review
Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) Dec 14, 2022
Sebald's discomforting investigative essay about that ominous silence, published in 1999, finds a singular cinematic translation in this homonymous documentary [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Ricardo Gallegos La Estatuilla Oct 13, 2022
A devastating document [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Àngel Quintana Caimán Cuadernos de Cine May 25, 2022
By reviving the images of the past, [Loznitsa] reminds us... the human history of destruction repeats itself, the discourse staying the same. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Sergei Loznitsa

Director

W. G. Sebald

Writer

Maria Baker-Choustova

Producer

Sergei Loznitsa

Producer

Christiaan Verbeek

Music

Regina Bouchehri

Producer

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The Natural History of Destruction

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Movie Info

Director
Sergei Loznitsa
Producer
Maria Baker-Choustova, Sergei Loznitsa, Regina Bouchehri, Gunnar Dedio, Uljana Kim
Screenwriter
W. G. Sebald
Production Co
Doco Digital, Atoms & Void, MDR, LooksFilm
Genre
Documentary, History
Original Language
German
Runtime
1h 42m
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