How I Ended This Summer (2010) Kak ya provel etim letom (original title): A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei ... (7.1)
Director: Alexei Popogrebsky
Writer: Alexei Popogrebsky
Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis and Igor Chernevich
Language: Russian (w/ English subtitles)
This is a great movie about the human nature. The isolation, the generation gap, the commitment to work, etc come into play between the two characters. The development of the characters as well as the plot via long sequences of scenes with minimal (or not at all) dialog is used to full extent. It is one of those stories where you begin to ask yourself what goes through the minds of the people involved and then ask yourself what you'd do in the situation. A thinking person's movie. (For me, the isolation doesn't have to be in a remote Arctic island; it can happen while living in the middle of a city ... so to speak.) My Rating: 7.5
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