One place. One day. Two men. A polar station on an uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean. The polar day lasts for many weeks and the sun does not set all summer. Forty-year-old meteorologist Sergei and twenty-one student Pavel travel to the port. The ship will arrive and they will go home. One day, Pavel receives a radio message, the content of which he does not dare to pass on to Sergei. Pavel keeps procrastinating, hoping that the ship will arrive soon and he will avoid the unpleasant duty. However, it turns out that the ship may not arrive this year. Pavel desperately tries to get to the mainland and almost dies. He is saved by Sergei. Excited, Pavel finally announces the message on the radio. The angry Sergei almost kills Pavel. The latter escapes and, convinced that Sergei is hunting him, sets a deadly trap for him.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 4 min.
- Country, year
- Russia, 2010
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Russian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Alexei Popogrebsky
- Screenplay
- Aleksei Popogrebsky
- Cinematography
- Pavel Kostomarov
- Music
- Dmitriy Katkhanov
- Cast
- Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
Director
Alexei Popogrebsky
Alexei Popogrebsky was born in 1972 in Moscow to the family of screenwriter Piotr Popogrebsky. He graduated in psychology from Moscow State University. In 1994, together with his friend Boris Chlebnikov (a student of film theory), he made several short films, and in 2003, he presented his first feature film, Cocktail. The film was screened at the Berlin Young Film Forum, visited many other festivals and won various prizes.