Severe film pro bears Two, Chukotka. One old, hardened wolf always takes a bear rifle with him. The second young player in the ears and playing Stalker on the computer. There can be no understanding between them, they are different and to back down for each of them is to cross out their whole world.
But a ridiculous accident puts the world upside down. While an old polar explorer is fishing on the far end of the island, the young man has to receive a radio message about the death of his colleague’s family. It is impossible to report this directly, and a bullet between the eyes can be crushed, but every day of silence tightens the plot knot more and more densely, which is surprising that in the end it will turn into a stranglehold when you have to choose your own or someone else’s life to put under attack.
Alexey Popogrebsky made a very harsh ascetic film. The frame is white because of the snows of Chukotka and the northern sky, most of the film sounds are represented only by the wind, and the cries of seagulls.
The cameraman Pavel Kostomarov will receive a specially created “Silver Bear” of the Berlin Festival for the film, and then all the participants of the filming will speak with a fading voice about how they met with a real polar bear. Thank God the bear had more important things to do than communicate with the crew.
The actors will also not be deprived of prizes, and in Russia for the first time shot such a polar film. Is Russia a Scandinavian country?
9 out of 10
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