83%User score 83 percent
For Sama
2019 · Documentary · War
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819 votes
The Greatest Documentary Ever Made
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
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CinemaSerf
July 13, 2024
Could this be the original observational documentary? We begin as the audience flood into a cinema and settle down in front of the big screen. The cameraman then takes us on a tour of his city with no apparent rhyme nor reason to the imagery we see. There's a bit of the old Imperial opulence reflected in the architecture to contrast with the street beggars (whom the Soviet Union aways denied existed). A very near mis…
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