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Region :
Russia / Central AsiaCountry :
RussiaLanguage :
RussianGenre :
DramaDirector :
Ella ManzheevaWriter :
Ella ManzheevaDOP :
Aleksandr KuznetsovTags :
familyThe Gulls
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- Russia
- 2015
- 87 minutes
- Drama
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Region :
Russia / Central AsiaCountry :
RussiaLanguage :
RussianGenre :
DramaDirector :
Ella ManzheevaWriter :
Ella ManzheevaDOP :
Aleksandr KuznetsovTags :
family
Elza lives in a small town in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea. Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see. One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. It is said that a fisherman only returns if he has a woman waiting for him and that seagulls are the souls of the missing. At the start of a somewhat unplanned pregnancy, widowed and alone, Elza wanders ever further through the city, plotting a path between tradition and the contemporary until she’s no longer on familiar ground.
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