Watch Civil Status (2005) Online

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. Read More

Watch Civil Status online. Featuring , Civil Status is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Russia and was released on 2005. Civil Status was directed by Alina Rudnitskaya. Read Less