Title: Portret
Authors: Loznit͡sa, Sergeĭ, 1964-; Cinema Guild.
Publisher: Cinema Guild,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Peasants Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) Rural conditions
Abstract: What first appear to be photographs of elderly Russian peasants and farmers, becomes an evocative meditation on old Russia and new, a snapshot of a disappearing way of life. As they stand in their work clothes, often with tools by their side, looking into the camera, this remarkable film with poetic rigor, captures a people, a world, that is quickly vanishing.