Kotlovan
About the film
Title: Kotlovan
Title in Russian: Котлован
Production company: DorogaVremeni Studio
Country of production: Russia
Year of Production: 2014
Duration: 26 min.
Film made with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian FederationFilm crew
Film director: Nikita Sutyrin
Producer: Alexander Kibkalo, Nikita Sutyrin
Logline
Day and night people dig tundra with excavator buckets and bulldozers, tear frost soil with dynamite, turn thousand tons of solid to get coil from the Earth’s interior. Everybody wants to leave for the “big land” but almost everybody stays here. Endless cold, monotonous work and wish to work out the “northern seniority” lead to the decrease of attentiveness and self-preservation. After another mine disaster, having buried their fellows, workers head for the cut face.
Synopsis
Day and night people dig tundra with excavator buckets and bulldozers, tear frost soil with dynamite, turn thousand tons of solid to get coil from the Earth’s interior. Everybody wants to leave for the “big land” but almost everybody stays here. Endless cold, monotonous work and wish to work out the “northern seniority” lead to the decrease of attentiveness and self-preservation. After another mine disaster, having buried their fellows, workers head for the cut face.
Distributor
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