The Gulls

The Gulls

2015
1h 27m
6.7

6.7/10

7 votes • View on IMDb
Overview

Elza lives in a small town in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea. Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see. One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. It is said that a fisherman only returns if he has a woman waiting for him and that seagulls are the souls of the missing. At the start of a somewhat unplanned pregnancy, widowed and alone, Elza wanders ever further through the city, plotting a path between tradition and the contemporary until she’s no longer on familiar ground.

Status: Released

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies
Telesto
Production Countries
Russia
Spoken Languages
Russian

Quick Facts

Original Title Чайки
Release Date February 7, 2015
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt4436330

Cast

Evgeniya Mandzhieva
Evgeniya Mandzhieva

Sergey Adianov
Sergey Adianov

Lyubov Ubushieva
Lyubov Ubushieva

Evgeny Sangadzhiev
Evgeny Sangadzhiev

Key Crew

Tatyana Sarana
Producer
Ella Manzheeva
Director
Elena Glikman
Producer
Viktoriya Lupik
Producer
Ella Manzheeva
Screenplay