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Oil Rocks: City Above the Sea (2009)
Directed by Marc Wolfensberger
Documentary · 54m
"Oil Rocks" - behind the enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil-platform ever built, a vast city in the middle of the Caspian Sea, built by Stalin in 1949. 60 years on, "Oil Rocks" is still operational and the first western film crew ever receives access. Just imagine: 200 kilometers of bridges, thousands of oil workers, hundreds of platforms, up to nine-story buildings, a park and sports field, nothing less then an oil-rig Atlantis, only real. Combining archive footage from the Soviet era and the exclusive new footage, the film tells the story of this timeless place and it's inhabitants.
Crew
- Director
- Marc Wolfensberger
- Screenplay
- Marc Wolfensberger, Peter Entell
- Director of Photography
- Jón Björgvinsson
- Original Music Composer
- Igor Cubrilovic
- Editor
- Patrick Léger, Peter Entell, Ana Acosta
- Producer
- Isabelle Gattiker
Details
- Original title
- La Cité du pétrole
- Release date
- 2009-10-18
- Runtime
- 54m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Azerbaijani, French, Russian
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Production
- Intermezzo Films, TSR, Thin Line Productions