Territory
Language : Russian
Year of release : 2015
Run time : 2h32min
Genre : Drama
Cast : Pyotr Fyodorov
The movie is written and directed by Aleksandr Melnik and is based on a novel by Oleg Kuvayev.
Territory narrates the story of a Russian geological survey team in the tundra in the early 1960's.
Territory is narrated by the journalist woman who wanted to write about the search for gold of the survey team.
When his superiors want to shut down the geological survey on the tundra,as the place seemed to have been barren of gold, geologist Ilya Chinkov insists the Territory has gold,and refuses to accept the orders.
Bent on proving them wrong,he gathers a team of brave men to carry the task.
The movie had beautiful landscapes, but other than that, it bored me,as it had nothing interesting happening, it was more like a documentary of how these people lived,the hardships they encountered as the winters were long and ruthless, hoping they'll find gold.
The movie is labeled as adventure and action on Google, but I assure you,it's neither.
I personally watched this movie for one of my favorite actors,Pyotr Fyodorov, but he only appears for 5 minutes in the movie. It took me two days to watch the movie,and I watched it while doing something else.
The only thing I liked about it was Pyotr and the love poem the woman recites. This shouldn't suggest the movie is not good. It has beautiful colors, good acting, good directing, but..it just didn't seem interesting to me. I kept on wondering why did they think this story was worth writing and then turned into a movie. I have friends whose lives are more interesting than what is happening to the characters of this movie! But hey, so are all the Oscar movies (boring),so !..
The soundtrack was Ok.
The acting was good.
You can watch the movie here,but it doesn't have subtitles : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEk_8T_hmpM&ab_channel=%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%9B%D0%B8
Rating : Could have been a contender !
