Waiting for the Sea (2012)

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

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.

slow-burnmelancholicatmosphericpoeticdreamlikegroundedreflectivesubdued

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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