Films by Victor Asliuk

Germany 2008
by Victor Asliuk

The film tells the story of two elderly men who are the last residents of a now-Russian-controlled island on Lake Ladoga. Although they are sole inhabitants on the islands, neither speaks to the other: one is of Belarusian origin, the other of Finnish origin. And between the two, there is a long history. Occasionally though, the younger of the two men climbs up on a hill during the evening to see whether light still burns at his neighbour’s.