Songs from the Southern Seas (2008)

Original title

Семья

Directed by

Marat Sarulu

Genre

drama

Country

Kazakhstan, Germany, Russia, France

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his Kazakh village after years away. He confronts changes in the people and landscape around him.

slow-burncontemplativemelancholiclonelyausterequietdreamlike

What happens

Songs from the Southern Seas or Song from the Southern Seas (Russian: Песни южных морей, romanized: Pesni yuzhnykh morey) is a 2008 Kazakh, German, French and Russian film directed by Marat Sarulu and produced by Sain Gabdullin, Karsten Stoter, Benny Dreschsel, Yuri Obukhov, Guillaume de Seille with English subtitles. The film was made under the following banners— Kino Company, Rohfilm, Kinoproba, Arizona Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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