Waiting for the Sea

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Movie
Original title В ожидании моря
Country of production Russia , Kazakhstan , Germany , France , Belgium
original language Russian
Publishing year 2012
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bakhtiyor Khudoinazarov
script Sergey Ashkenazi
production Thanassis Karathanos
Karl Baumgartner
Oleg Ogronski
Bachtijor Chudoinasarow
music Shuhei Kamimura
Richard Horowitz (title melody)
Swetlana Jakowlewna Surganowa
camera Jan Vancaillie
Dusan Joksimovic
Rifkat Ibragimov
cut Salome Machaidze
Danielius Kokanauskis
occupation

The film Waiting for the Sea ( Russian В ожидании моря W oschidanii morja ) is a drama by the Tajik director Bakhtiyor Khudoinasarow from 2012. It is set against the backdrop of the dried up Aral Sea and thematizes the influence of the ecological catastrophe of the disappearance of this sea the human.

It is the last part of a Central Asia trilogy planned by Chudoinasarow , which began with the 1999 film Luna Papa . The second part of the trilogy, the planned tragicomedy "Living Fish" ( Живая рыба ) based on a script by Oleg Antonov, was in the planning stage since 2000, but was canceled as a result of the financial crisis in 2008 - and then due to the death of producer Karl Baumgartner ( 2014) and Khudoinazarov (2015) - never completed. The film Waiting for the Sea was in project status in 2009.

action

From the port town of Abasta (which corresponds to Mo'ynoq ) on the southern shore of the Aral Sea, despite a storm warning, Captain Marat sets sail with his fishing cutter, as an extraordinary amount of fish comes into the bay that day. After initial hesitation, he also takes his wife Dari with him, but sends her little sister Tamara home. The ship sinks in the storm and Marat is the only survivor.

Ten years later, Marat is released from prison and returns to the city. The sea has disappeared and the port pier juts out into an endless sand desert with rusted ships. The city's residents are hostile to Marat and accuse him of having lost their relatives to the shipwreck. None of the crew on Marat's ship was ever found. Driven by feelings of guilt, Marat begins to pull his ship with muscle power and search for the sea. Only his old friend Balthasar is on his side. Tamara, the younger sister of his drowned wife Dari, has loved Marat since childhood and now tries tirelessly to win his heart. But Marat has "ashes in his soul" and only lives to search for the sea; he believes that if he finds the sea he will find his crew and his beloved wife Dari too, because "the sea doesn't kill. It gives everyone back".

Finally Marat dies of illness and exhaustion, the perspective changes to that of Marat's soul: the sea returns in a storm and carries Marat out on his ship, accompanied by a fade-in of the Revelation of John 21 : 1.

reception

Xan Brooks of the British Guardian rated Waiting for the Sea 3 out of 5 stars and described the film after its premiere in Rome as "a great, broad, magically realistic folk tale, overflowing with many crude archetypes (the object of beauty, the wise old Einsiedler, the best friend as a henchman) to really convince as a human drama, but when the acid test at an international film festival is to show us places we didn't know existed and to put ourselves in other worlds and foreign cultures , then Waiting for the Sea must be considered a resounding success ".

Locations

The film was shot in Kazakhstan in the mountainous desert steppes of the Caspian Sea on the Mangyschlak peninsula and near the old port of Aktau . The film sets of the city of Abasta are still located 104 km north of Aktau near the city of Tauchik (at N 44 ° 24.112 E51 ° 34.076) and are a destination for excursions in the area.

publication

The premiere of Waiting for the Sea took place on November 9, 2012 as the opening film at the 7th International Film Festival of Rome out of competition instead. The film was released in Russian cinemas on October 17, 2013 and in German cinemas on December 11, 2014.

Waiting for the Sea was broadcast on arte for the first time on April 20, 2016 , in German dubbing in German and in French in Russian with French subtitles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Funding decisions 1/2000 of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH. Retrieved May 25, 2017 . .
  2. ^ Asian Project Market: Living Fish (2001). Retrieved May 25, 2017 (English).
  3. Oleg Antonov in: “Давай переиграем” Memories of the director Bakhtijor Khudoinasarow. May 31, 2015, Retrieved May 25, 2017 (Russian). .
  4. ^ Asian Project Market: Waiting for the Sea (2009). Retrieved May 28, 2017 (English).
  5. ^ Waiting for the Sea - first look review. Retrieved May 26, 2017 (English).
  6. Фильм В ожидании моря - Вокруг ТВ (All about TV). Retrieved May 25, 2017 (Russian).
  7. Забытые в прошлом - Порт Абаста (Forgotten in the past: Abasta port). Retrieved May 25, 2017 (Russian).