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OSTROV - LOST ISLAND

By Svetlana RODINA, Laurent STOOP

Historical - Completed 2021

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Visions du Réel 2021

Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Historical, Social issues, Biography
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Svetlana RODINA, Laurent STOOP
- Producer(s)
- Corinna DÄSTNER (DOKLAB GMBH), Sonja KILBERTUS (DOKLAB GMBH), Urs AUGSTBURGER
- Synopsis
- Lost in the Caspian Sea, the island Ostrov was once home to a well-functioning fishing collective farm. After the fall of the USSR, the farm was destroyed, and black caviar extraction was banned. 3'000 people used to live on the island. Now, around fifty remain. The island has no gas or electricity, it has no jobs, no doctors, or police. On the mainland, Ostrov is known as the "poachers' island".
  For Ivan (50), the stubborn descendant of a dynasty of fishermen, there is only one job: illegal fishing for caviar, the black gold of the Caspian Sea. Ivan was imprisoned twice for poaching. Yet he goes out to sea again. There is no choice – he either gets the caviar or he starves. Anna (45) studied in the city but fell in love with Ivan and chose the harsh life of the island. They want their children Anton (19) and Alina (17) to have a better future somewhere else. But Anton, together with his cousin Roman (21), has already started to go out to sea.