The story of the real "supermen" Somewhere in the middle of watching it, I thought I was seeing a film from the twenty-first century that could have been made in the Soviet Union. And so it turned out – “Territory” was quite famous in the past history, first filmed back in 1978.
The new version turned out to be incomparably more lyrical: poems about love, a beautiful wedding scene on the shore of the Arctic Ocean and bard songs permeate the fabric of the film, not to mention the luxurious panoramas of the untouched nature of the North. Well, in what other country on Earth in the story of the search for gold will be an appropriate poetic line addressed to your loved one during separation: “To love you is to swallow water in the desert without quenching your thirst”?
The characters of the film crave love because it holds a great secret. They crave new discoveries to become partakers of the secrets of nature. And they can not do without a thirst for difficulties and dangers, because only in this way you can discover the secret in yourself.
It is a thirst for everything except gold. What's the secret to a geologist in an already mined piece of yellow metal? Only the metal is valuable, which is still hidden behind the layers of granite. Only hidden, it awakens in you the creative power of foresight and makes you write geological novels. Apparently, it was this stunning logic that brought together the best of the best (as the film ironically says, supermen) in places like the Territory.
The revealed secret, decorated with sand and nuggets, will go to the big land. Where supermen escaped, alarmed, as the “penultimate adventurer” Gurin put it, by “universal confusion.” Acquisition of what is not and cannot be a secret - apartments, cars and rags. "I want to live to a very old age - to see how it all ends" - these terrible words are written in 1973. In the film, Gurin pronounces them in 1961. In the year when all the supermen of the Territory will be able to feel not just pride, but inner kinship with a person who knows the secrets of nature already in a new, extraterrestrial territory.
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All this happened in another century and on another earth, the creators of the picture summarize. On a land where, it was believed, there would be no more black rain... 9 out of 10
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