Underplayed Gems

Waiting for the Sea (2012)

Waiting for the Sea poster
Original title
В ожидании моря
Directed by
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Genre
drama film, fantasy film
Country
Kazakhstan, Germany, Russia
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
16+
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man returns to his homeland near the dried-up Aral Sea. The film follows his struggle to rebuild his life and relationships in a landscape devastated by environmental collapse.

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What happens

Waiting for the Sea (Russian: В ожидании моря; V ozhidanii morya) is a 2012 film by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov with collaboration from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Germany, France, and Belgium. The film is set in the backdrop of the dried-up Aral Sea and addresses the impact of the ecological catastrophe on the fate of the people in that region. It is the last part of the Central Asia trilogy that Khudojnazarov had planned, which started with his 1999 film Luna Papa. The second part of the trilogy, a tragicomedy named "Living Fish" (Живая рыба) after a screenplay by Oleg Antonov, had been projected since the year 2000, but was never completed as a result of the financial crisis in 2008 and the deaths of producer Karl Baumgartner in 2014 and Khudojnazarov in 2015. Waiting for the Sea was in the works in 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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