The Gulls
- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- woman director
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 7, 2015
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Russia
- Production
- Telesto
- Director
- Ella Manzheeva
- Writer
- Ella Manzheeva
- Cinematography
- Alexandr Kuznetsov
- Music
- Anton Silaev
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt4436330