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Director: Pavel Lounguine
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From Time Out London
Lounguine’s impressively bleak drama – the closing film of the recent Venice Film Festival – is beautifully shot and blessed with at least one captivating performance by Russian rocker Pyotr Mamonov. It begins during the closing stages of WWII when bargeman Anatoly (Mamonov) is forced by the Nazis to shoot his own captain on pain of death. Cut to 1976 and Anatoly, now a bearded eccentric, is still living on the same barge and strangely revered by locals as some kind of holy man, much to the chagrin of the local monks. Punctuated by long, wordless takes and some beautiful, steel-grey cinematography, ‘The Island’ is both heartfelt and ultimately optimistic.Author: Derek Adams
Time Out London Issue 1887: October 18-25 2006
Cast & crew
Director: Pavel Lounguine
Cast: Piotr Mamonov, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Victor Sukhorukov full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 112 mins
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