GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

aleo81190 "A Trainer and A Trainee alone in the polar station checking the readouts and things get complicated dramatically" Started like a good movie and ended horribly. Only best part in the movie is when they show how to cut the fish And also that white bear.Very slow movie.I hate this movie only because they complicated the situation deliberately without any necessity. Really horrible although the end is little good.Better stay away.

evanston_dad Two men man an isolated weather station in the Arctic circle. Sergei is older and experienced with a wife and son at home. Pavel is young and bored, resentful of Sergei's dominance yet dependent on it. Into this already tense environment comes the news that Sergei's wife and son were badly injured in an accident. Pavel receives the message while Sergei is out fishing. Because of the way things play out, Pavel doesn't deliver the message right away; as the opportune moment passes him by, it becomes harder and harder to tell Sergei even while the direness of his screw up becomes more and more obvious. Eventually, hostilities boil over and Pavel's paranoia reaches such a crescendo that he takes off into the wilderness on a self-imposed cat and mouse chase, convinced that Sergei wants to kill him.It's almost ludicrous that something that really is at heart pretty banal (failing to deliver a message, even if that message is very serious) could trigger events that reach the conclusion they do (I won't spoil it, but the end to this movie is grim, folks). But the movie is so well made and acted that everything is entirely plausible, and it's easy to see how distrust can so easily grow when given the right conditions.My understanding is that both actors won German film prizes for their work, and no wonder. Until the final scene, not another human being appears, and it falls to the two of them to hold our attention with nothing more than a stark if beautiful landscape to act against.Well hold it they do.Grade: A

Olga Ulianova This film geniusly reflects the complex of difficulties existed in the relationship "humans-nature". Kamchatka is amazing place to be in Russia, Kamchatka in this movie is twice amazing. Dobrygin perfectly transfers quite common for contemporary Russia typical Russian guy image in the age of 22-27 - a bit disoriented in the space, introverted, frustrated, oriented to the pleasures of life more than on the help to other people. His acting is perfect and hi is hot. The other character is made also successfully. There are a lot of such men in the age of 40-45 who are much stronger than Dobrygin's generation because they experienced the market transformations in early 90s. Thus they think they know everything and often use authoritative way of behavior. The conflict of generations, isolation issue, nature and humans..These is not full list of topics highlighted by the movie.

sensorshot Having watched this movie on a flight I am going to steer clear of commenting on what appeared to be some amazing cinematography.With a sparse cast and a sparse setting this films works hard on the subtleties and isolation of the main characters. The monotony, the boredom, the sense of duty and the age old story of the older experienced man and the younger upstart who doesn't appreciate the ways of old.Grigoriy Dobrygin as Pasha is incredible in delivering the essence and fundamentals of the story. What makes this movie thrilling and scary at the same time is that, in such isolation, everything that could possibly scare you in such a situation is explored or alluded to so you never know what could happen because anything could happen. Within this context an important message is received Without spoiling the movie, one could say that we cannot control how people react to things anymore than we can control nature itself. And sometimes to try and prevent bad things happening can be the worst choice but it is always the human choice.The script is extremely tight and though the dialogue is somewhat monosyllabic and sparse it all adds to the tension, (and makes it easier if you are not watching it in Russian and dislike subtitles) I cannot imagine how a movie as good as this could ever be made in Hollywood. Where, for example, someones expressions alone could take up 5 minutes of film and still have you on the edge of your seat. Even Hitchcock would have learned a lot from the art of suspense after watching this movie.