Friends

Friends! Today, Sergey Loznitsya celebrates his birthday. He is a well-known Ukrainian director of documentary and feature films, among which are such famous as "Maidan", "In the Fog", "My Happiness" and "Soft".

Sergiy was born on September 5, 1964 in the city of Baranovichi in Belarus. But later he moved to Kiev. There he graduated from high school and entered the Kiev Polytechnic in 1981. There he studied applied mathematics, became an engineer-mathematician. After graduation, Loznytsia worked at the Institute of Cybernetics on problems of artificial intelligence, was fond of photography. But at the age of 27 he decided to change everything and tried himself in the cinema. In 1991-1997 Sergey studied at VGIK in the department of directing the play cinema (workshop of Nani Gioradze), graduated with honors.

A few years after completing his studies, Loznytsia moved with his family to Germany. For many years, he filmed documentaries, then went to the game. The first Ukrainian film nominated for the Cannes festival was "My Happiness" by Loznitsya. Films of the famous director have received numerous awards at festivals in different parts of the world.

A special for all was Sergey's film "Maidan". Which, without a single word, carries everyone into the atmosphere of those extremely important events. The film is striking. Especially strong is final, in it the audience is not shown the euphoria of victory. There is silence, pain and candles. Woe to the loss of people who have been fighting side by side for the future of the nation.

When in an interview Sergey was asked if there has been a risk that the Ukrainian revolution will deceive people's expectations, he replied: "The path to a thousand le begins with the first step. The revolution must take place in the minds of most people; what happened on the Maidan, told us: this process has already started. People are ready to make their own decisions, take responsibility for themselves. Compared with Russia, this is done not by the separate leaders of the opposition, but by thousands of people who are thoughtful, wise, responsible. Any authority will have to take into consideration of such citizens. "

From my heart, I congratulate Sergey on his birthday! I wish him inspiration, new wonderful films, strengths and personal happiness. Thank you for the creativity and immeasurable atmosphere that is presented in his wonderful films.