Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea
On a frozen and forbidding shoreline of northern Sakhalin Island, to the north of Japan, live the Nyvkh people, whose austere, heroic struggle for survival depends solely on their ability to hunt the seal and to fish. This blunt glimpse into their quarters, animistic rituals, and daily (and nightly) lives has all the appearance of a well-shot documentary but is in fact a scripted film with convincing special effects, based on a novella of the same title by the gifted and controversial Soviet Kirghiz writer, Chingiz Aitmatov. "Dog running at the edge of the sea" is what the Nyvkhs call the forbidding place they have domesticated as their home, husbanding and speaking of it by means of myths and "poetry of the concrete" with which they commemorate their savage lives.
Year: 1991
Genre: Drama
Studio: Dovzhenko Film Studios, ZDF
Director: Karen Gevorkyan
Cast: Bayarta Dambayev, Aleksandr Sasykov, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Tokon Daiyrbekov
Crew: Karen Gevorkyan (Director), Chinghiz Aitmatov (Writer), Tolomush Okeev (Writer), Karen Gevorkyan (Writer)
Runtime: 132 minutes
Release: Apr 01, 1991
IMDb: 7.50/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Germany, Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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