NORTHERN LIGHT / 2008
SYNOPSIS
Just before winter cloaks everything in the Arctic night, a few hours of daylight linger in late autumn in the village of Sumskoy Posad, one thousand kilometres north of Saint Petersburg, in Karelia, on the shores of the White Sea. Linked to the rest of the country by a vague muddy track and a stretch of railway line, the village lives in a suspended and mysterious dimension. This is the Russia of endless forests and potato fields. A few robust and uncompromising characters work calmly there, driven by no vital needs. This is a still happy and cold Russia.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
original title
СЕВЕРНЫЙ СВЕТ [SEVERNIY SVET]
english title
NORTHERN LIGHT
genre
documentary
country
France
year
2008
language
Russian
color
color
runtime
52 min
sound
stereo
aspect ratio
1.66:1
film format
DVCPRO
CREW
written & directed
Sergei Loznitsa
director(s) of photography
Sergei Mikhalchuk
sound
Vladimir Golovnitski
editing
Sergei Loznitsa
producer(s)
Serge Lalou
production
Les Films d'Ici, Musée du quai Branly, Arte France
festivals & awards
- 49th Festival dei Popoli