The Gulls
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.
Year: 2015
Genre: Drama
Studio: Telesto
Director: Ella Manzheeva
Cast: Evgeniya Mandzhieva, Sergey Adianov, Lyubov Ubushieva, Evgeny Sangadzhiev
Crew: Denis Bauer (Production Design), Tatyana Sarana (Producer), Ella Manzheeva (Director), Sergey Ivanov (Editor), Elena Glikman (Producer), Alexandr Kuznetsov (Director of Photography)
Runtime: 87 minutes
Release: Feb 07, 2015
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 5 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Russia
Language: Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : woman director
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