Once There Was a Sea…
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Svetlana stares into the salt desert with her only eye. Gulshat runs an empty hotel. Captain records traces of the vanishing sea, and Sergei drives tourists across its bare, glittering seabed. The last people of Mo´ynoq who remember the original shore of the drying Aral Sea...
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Cast
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Jaroslava Sisáková
Joanna (voice)
Also in
1890
Eva Nová
Světlana Škovranová
Svetlana (voice)
Also in
Flood
Kavej
Jozef Tkáč
Captain (voice)
Also in
Záchranári
1890
Ľudmila Lukačíková
Gulszat (voice)
Also in
Hranica
1890
Jevgenij Libezňuk
Siergiej (voice)
Known for
Waves
Alexander Adam
Siergiej's Son (voice)
Igor Latta
Comrade (voice)
Also in
The Train of Childhood and Expectation
Flood
Lubomír Mindoš
Border Guard (voice)
Also in
The Train of Childhood and Expectation
Blues pro EFB
Vladimir Slaninka
(voice)
Alexander Mamaev
(voice)
Evgenia Antonova
(voice)
Alexander Antonov
(voice)
Joanna Kozuch Director
First release January 28, 2022 · Produced in Slovakia, Poland · Languages English, Russian
Production
BFILM
Production
Anima-Pol
Production
plackartnyj
Production
Telewizja Polska
Production
RTVS
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EC1 Łódź
Production
Slovakia · Poland
Produced in
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Original title
Bolo raz jedno more...
Original language
Slovak
Spoken on screen
English · Russian
Release dates
France · January 28, 2022
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
France
December 6, 2023 · TV · France 3 (Libre court)
Poland
July 5, 2025 · Digital · TVP VOD
July 5, 2025 · TV · TVP1
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