Civil Status

A brilliant observational documentary filmed at the Civil Registry office in St Petersburg where people come to have births marriages divorces and deaths registered Its 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 Its all very well composed rhythmical with atmosphere conveyed and lives up to what a documentary should be multilayered and universal And about Life