The Island (2006)

Original title

Остров

Directed by

Pavel Lungin

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 166 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly monk lives a simple life of prayer and labor on a remote island monastery. He struggles with past sins and seeks redemption while performing small miracles for visitors.

slow-burncontemplativemelancholicspiritualausteremeditativequietatmospheric

What happens

The Island (Russian: Остров, romanized: Ostrov) is a 2006 Russian comedy-drama film directed by Pavel Lungin and written by Dmitry Sobolev. The film stars Pyotr Mamonov as a fictional 20th-century Eastern Orthodox monk. Filming took place in the city of Kem, in Karelia, on the shores of the White Sea. The film closed the 2006 Venice Film Festival, proved to be a moderate box-office success and won both the Nika Award and the China TV Golden Eagle Award as the Best Russian film of 2006. It received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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