Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union

Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like Here is an archive-compilation documentary from Sergei Loznitsa, a hypnotic panorama of early 1970s life across the vast reaches of the Soviet Union, or maybe we should call it the Soviet empire.

Loznitsa gives it the Latin title Imperium, perhaps to recall the Romans before their decline and fall. His material is taken from…