Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea

Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea

Release date : April 1, 1991
Runtime : 2h 12m
Countries of origin : Germany / Soviet Union /
Original Language : Russian /
Director : Karen Gevorkyan /
Production companies : Dovzhenko Film Studios / ZDF /
April 1, 1991 2h 12m Germany Drama Russian More
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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.
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  • title:Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1991
  • Runtime:2h 12m
  • Genres: Drama ·
  • Countries of origin: Germany · Soviet Union ·
  • Original Language: Russian ·
  • Director: Karen Gevorkyan /
  • Writers: Chinghiz Aitmatov · Tolomush Okeev · Karen Gevorkyan ·
  • Production companies: Dovzhenko Film Studios · ZDF ·
  • Overview: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.
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