aleo81190 "A Trainer and A Trainee alone in the polar station checking the readouts and things get complicated dramatically" Started like a good movie and ended horribly. Only best part in the movie is when they show how to cut the fish And also that white bear.Very slow movie.I hate this movie only because they complicated the situation deliberately without any necessity. Really horrible although the end is little good.Better stay away.

iamthedirector The award winning film, including the prestigious 'Best Film' award in the 2010 London Film Festival, hosted by BFI, has received recognition globally for its cold, yet cosy, atmosphere in a bleak island in the Arctic Ocean as a recent graduate plans to write his essay uin the baron polar research base.As it delves further into the story, it can be blatantly seen that Sergei, a professional at his job at the deserted meteorological station is contrasted against a young college graduate, Pavel, whilst he resorts to his MP3 player and video games as he attempts to avoid the manipulation and intimidation of Sergei's presence.

filmalamosa Pasha is a young apprentice spending the summer at a completely isolated arctic weather station (on an island) with Sergei an old hand who had been there for years.Sergei doesn't think the young kid is serious enough about the job.While Sergei is gone for a couple days Pasha (Pavlov) hears by radio that Sergei's wife and child have been in a serious accident and have been killed.He doesn't know how to break it to Sergei and ends up not telling him until a lot of time has passed and he thinks a helicopter is there to pick them up.Sergei in his anguish fires some gun shots. Pasha thinks he is trying to kill him and hides.It is one of those nightmare scenarios. Will not spoil it further.The cinematography is great this movie will definitely keep you on edge (in a good way).

trof22 "Kak ya provyol etim letom" (Russian title contains intentional misspell-pin and should be read "How I Cheated (somebody) Last Summer", not just this school-like "How I Spent Last Summer", chosen for foreign version) is a Russian psychological drama about two meteorologists, the old, Sergei, and the young, Pavel, who get stuck on an isolated polar station for a regular season work and have to deal with each other ...and the information, that arrives from the "big earth".Visually and stylistically film is flawless. Cinematography with it's slow-pacing, static long shots and scenic wild nature shots is adorable. Atmosphere, when time seems ticking slower and cold wind awaits for you from another side of the door, is on the good level too. And as a native-speaker, I can say that dialogue-lines are also pretty decent. Polar station as a place is just a cause for examination of human communication (so-called "chemistry") in isolated space. Subject deals with responsibility, instinct of self-preservation, influence of isolated space to human psychics and importance of experience. I don't want to spoil your first-time-watching, so I won't go into plot any further...Can't name any similarities. Maybe the closest will be: "Breaking the Waves" meets "Gerry" and "Shutter Island" (no delusions here, similarity is geographical) along with Russian "Dikoe Pole" (2008) and maybe even "Kukushka" (2002). Plus some Michael Haneke's style (like from most recently - though black and white - "Das Weisse Band" with it's distant human behavior examination). In my opinion, "Kak ya provyol etim letom" is one of the best Russian movies of the decade (2000-2010) along with Alexei Balabanov's "Gruz 200", "Morfiy" and above-mentioned Alexander Rogozhkin's "Kukushka". And yes, it is way better than Zvyagintsev's pretentious force-fed Tarkovsky-styled issues "Vozvraschenie" & "Izgnanie".Don't know how soon those of you who don't speak Russian will be available to watch this with subtitles or voice-over...So, if you're often bored with 2-hour non-action movies - don't bother watching this. Try something more entertaining. But if you're into slow-paced minimalistic psychological dramas, give it a try. You'll be aesthetically rewarded.8-8,5\10.