Christopher Vourlias Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest documentary, “The Natural History of Destruction,” bows May 23 in the Cannes Premiere section of the Cannes Film Festival.
The director returns to the Croisette one year after his last feature, “Babi Yar. Context,” won a Special Jury Prize of the Golden Eye award for best documentary.
Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s trailer.Inspired by a book by German writer W.G. Sebald, “The Natural History of Destruction” makes use of an unprecedented trove of archive footage to re-examine the strategic bombing campaign of Allied forces in Germany during the Second World War.
The unsparing attacks were designed to destroy the country’s war capabilities and break the German people’s morale. Loznitsa poses the question whether it’s morally acceptable to use civilian populations as a means of war — an urgent question as Russia’s brutal onslaught in Ukraine approaches the end of its third month. “How is it still possible to use such inhumane methods of mass destruction and mass extermination of our fellow human beings?
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