Immortal
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“Born to march to the rhymes of the power, they follow the promise of immortality”
Apatity, a far-north industrial town in Russia, first came into being as a USSR concentration camp. Although its environment is at the brink of ecological disaster, the people here still believe in the state’s promise of immortality that can be gained through sacrificial service to the fatherland. This is how the elite in a totalitarian state buy a person’s will, strength, talent and, indeed, life, turning the human being into another resource that is as faceless as a grey lump of ore. ‘I cannot fight big corporations or state structures with a film. But I hope that there is someone in the darkness of the cinema whose heart will get a bit warmer after seeing it,’ says the director. The larger part of the film was shot during the polar night.
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Ksenia Okhapkina Director · Pauls Bankovskis Writer Kersti Uibo Writer
First release July 2, 2019 · Produced in Estonia, Latvia · Production VFS Films
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Vesilind
Production
VFS Films
Production
Estonia · Latvia
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Czechia · July 2, 2019
Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
November 14, 2019 · Premiere · Mar del Plata Film Festival
Canada
May 28, 2020 · Digital · Hot Docs Film Festival
Latvia
October 23, 2019 · Premiere · Riga International Film Festival
Russia
December 5, 2019 · Premiere · Art Doc Fest
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