Laurent Stoop
Born in 1965 in Switzerland, Laurent Stoop has a degree in literature and photography. Just after the end of the Soviet Union he moved to Moscow and worked as a freelance photographer with the photo agency Lookat. In 1995 he founded the production company Mayak-Film. Since then he worked as director of photography for various television and feature documentaries, including the award-winning and critically acclaimed Citizen Khodorkovsky (2016).
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Ostrov - Lost Island
On the desert island of Ostrov, in the Caspian Sea, a handful of inhabitants live without roads, electricity, or jobs, abandoned by the Russian state since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this dystopian atmosphere, this film reveals the portrait of a family forced to imagine a future in the midst of ruins, or to turn towards the outside world, towards Russia and its current state.
Ostrov - Lost Island
On the desert island of Ostrov, in the Caspian Sea, a handful of inhabitants live without roads, electricity, or jobs, abandoned by the Russian state since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this dystopian atmosphere, this film reveals the portrait of a family forced to imagine a future in the midst of ruins, or to turn towards the outside world, towards Russia and its current state.
