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How I Ended This Summer

2010 · 124 min

A slow-burn, unsettling descent into paranoia and isolation set against a bleak, unforgiving Arctic landscape.

Genres
Drama, Thriller
Overview
A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere...

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • guilt
  • deception
  • survival
  • grief
Places
  • wilderness
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror3
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, thriller
Directed by
Alexey Popogrebsky
Written by
Alexey Popogrebsky
Starring
Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Artyom Tsukanov, Igor Chernevich, Ilya Sobolev
Music
Dmitry Katkhanov
Cinematography
Pavel Kostomarov
Runtime
124 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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