Robinsons of Mantsinsaari
ticketsFilm Information:
Year:
2009
Robinsons of Mantsinsaari
Países:
Director:
Victor AsliukColor:
Color
Format:
Betacam
Duration:
56 min
Production:
- GUIÓN: Victor Asliuk, Volha Dashuk
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Ivan Gancharuk, Anatol Kazazaeu, Victor Asliuk
- MONTAJE: Victor Asliuk
- PRODUCCIÓN: Heino Deckert, Kaarle Aho
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Synopsis
Two men, a Finnish and a Byelorussian live, alone, in a lake’s island. But they don’t talk to each other. There’s a dog, which belongs to one of them, but is a friend of the two. There’s also a horse. The island is the Mantsinsaari of the title, one of the 660 existing in Lake Ladoga, the largest in Europe. These sites were Finnish territory up to 1944, when they became part of the Soviet Union and most of the Finnish people had to leave. Stalin tried to populate the island with voluntaries and also internal political exiles (the “enemies of the people”), but almost everyone left the place after the collapse of the USSR. But let’s go back to our Finnish man –a fisherman– and our Byelorussian –a hunter. Victor Asluik’s first film not only focuses on the life of these two men; it also opens up to the place’s astonishing nature with an enormous poetic power. It’s a hypnotic film about men and landscapes that manages to go deep –without lacking any humor– into these singular lives.
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