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The White Sky (1998)
Directed by Virpi Suutari, Susanna Helke
Documentary · 54m
A glance across the border in northern Russia, where the small town of Montegorsk suffers under the heavy metal from industry. Nature is transformed into a poisonous desert: in long shots the camera probes the pale, skeleton-like branches of the dead trees. The small family, whose everyday life Helke and Suutari follow, lives in a state of waiting: waiting for the next German car, the next medical examination, the next holidays. White Sky exemplifies the artists‘ approach with currents of time flowing together: no one can say how long it will take for nature to regenerate itself here; yet people live here in their own time, with their own individual wishes and expectations.
Crew
- Director
- Virpi Suutari, Susanna Helke
- Writer
- Susanna Helke, Virpi Suutari
- Producer
- Lasse Saarinen
Details
- Original title
- Valkoinen taivas
- Release date
- 1998-03-27
- Runtime
- 54m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Finland
- Production
- Kinotar