Civil Status
2005, Russian. Directed by Alina Rudnitskaya.
A brilliant observational documentary filmed at the Civil Registry office in St. Petersburg, where people come to have births, marriages, divorces and deaths registered. 'It’s 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... It’s all very well composed, rhythmical, with atmosphere conveyed, and lives up to what a documentary should be: multilayered and universal. And about Life.
- Runtime
- 0h 29m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 29 June 2005
- Original title
- Гражданское состояние
- Country
- Russia
- Written by
- Alina Rudnitskaya
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Civil Status isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 June 2005. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Civil Status?
Civil Status (2005) was directed by Alina Rudnitskaya.