Tender's Heat. Wild Wild Beach

    Zar nezhnykh. Dikyi, dikyi plyazh

    • Alexander Rastorguev, Susanna Baranzhieva, Vitaly Mansky
    • Russia
    • 2006
    • 125 min
    • World Premiere
    • IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
    According to a drunk, middle-aged woman who always wanted to be an actress, "Happiness is when someone understands you, when someone loves you." Her equally inebriated boyfriend is so jealous that he smacks her time and again. Director Alexander Rastorguev follows the tragicomic couple during their summer holiday by the sea. But he also directs his camera at other seaside visitors, like the man earning a living on the beach with a camel, a young womaniser, and a dwarf getting married to a young woman. They are all spending the summer on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Rastorguev observes man in all of his manifestations: fat, thin, young, old, drunk, dancing, singing, having sex and bathing in mud or in the sea. Even President Putin makes an appearance, clad in casual clothes. Quite a few fortune-seekers at the resort get caught up in a daily carrousel of sex, booze and aggression. When a corpse washes ashore, several people say they would also like to drown in the sea. It is no surprise that the soundtrack repeatedly plays a song of longing, about a small boat all alone at sea: "What is it looking for so far from home? Not happiness, but a typhoon."

    Credits

    • 125 min
    • color
    • video
    • Spoken languages: Russian
    Director
    Alexander Rastorguev, Susanna Baranzhieva, Vitaly Mansky
    Production
    Vitaly Mansky for Vertov & Co, Natalia Manskaya for Vertov & Co
    Co-production
    Ma.ja.de Filmproduktions GmbH
    Cinematography
    Edward Kechedzhiyan, Pavel Kostomarov
    Editing
    Dasha Danilova

    IDFA history

    2006
    World Premiere
    IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

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