The Gulls

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Evgeniya Mandzhieva

Age : 38 | Popularity : 4%

Sergey Adianov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Lyubov Ubushieva

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Evgeny Sangadzhiev

Age : 36 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Ella Manzheeva
Editing	Editor	Sergey Ivanov
Production	Producer	Elena Glikman Viktoriya Lupik Tatyana Sarana
Camera	Director of Photography	Alexandr Kuznetsov
Writing	Screenplay	Ella Manzheeva
Sound	Original Music Composer	Anton Silaev
Art	Production Design	Denis Bauer
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