The Gulls
2015 · 87 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 109 VOTES · DIR. Ella Manzheeva
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.
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00:00:19 TELESTO Film Company
00:02:56 Go home!
00:10:19 What about the Bach polonaise?
00:12:59 within the 'Fishing Season' Campaign to stop illegal fishing.
00:14:23 I did.
00:16:23 If you own it up,
00:18:43 Our chief's complaining that we aren't working well.
00:25:50 Stop, I say!
00:29:43 Seeing their well-being and sharing their desire to marry,
00:31:53 And you?
00:34:05 - Danarka isn't working? - She works in a restaurant.
00:36:01 I saw Elza standing in a white dress.
00:38:58 We need to talk.
00:40:52 It looks like not everybody will be received today.
00:44:59 Go home.
00:48:48 I'll be back.
00:51:29 You didn't have to come.
00:58:06 - Tea? - Yes.
01:00:28 - They're raising money for Saga. - What Saga?
01:03:06 You can resign wherever you wish.
01:06:40 I'll SMS it to you.
01:13:32 Having no nightmares yet, eh?
01:16:42 Has Elza called?
01:24:10 Lubov Ubusheva as Mother
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