How I Ended This Summer

How I Ended This Summer

Kak ya provyol etim letom Director Alexei Popogrebsky

2 hr. 4 min. · Russia, 2010 · Drama · Russian · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · N/A

About the film

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.

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
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Festivals and awards

  • Berlin Film Festival
Alexei Popogrebsky

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.