Territory (1979)

Original title

Территория

Directed by

Alexander Surin

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of geologists search for gold in the remote and harsh region of Chukotka during the late 1940s and early 1950s. They face extreme conditions and bureaucratic obstacles as they try to locate and prove the existence of valuable deposits.

determinedgrittymethodicalcoldisolatedearnestdeliberateatmospheric

What happens

Territory (Russian: Территория, romanized: Territoriya) is a 1979 Soviet adventure drama film directed by Aleksander Surin based on the novel of the same name by Oleg Kuvaev. The film tells of the difficult search, exploration and the subsequent discovery of gold deposits in Chukotka in the late 1940s and early 1950s of Dalstroy. In 2015 a remake was released which was directed by Aleksandr Melnik and starred Konstantin Lavronenko. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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