As the short, cold summer draws to a close, Old Russia and New Russia collide, at a remote meteorological station in the Russian Arctic. New Russia is Pasha, an easy-going, feckless pretty-boy college student (Grigoriy Dobrygin) with a pierced ear and a soundtrack smashing into his headphones. Old Russia is Sergei, a stolid old Arctic…
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Filmed at Valkarkai Polar Station – a Stalin-era meteorological research station in Chukotka in the Russian Arctic – the tense Russian psycho-thriller How I Ended This Summer is described by Salon.com as a cross between The Shining and Shutter Island. It looks completely fan-tastic.
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