Roads to Koktebel
Roads to Koktebel

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A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister. After they are stopped by a train guard, they continue their travel on foot. The father battles against his alcohol addiction and the son is fascinated with the idea of flight. One rainy day an old man accepts them in his house in return for the repair of the roof. The father gives in ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Roads to Koktebel:

Gleb Puskepalis
Igor Chernevich
Yevgeni Syty
Вера Сандрыкина
Vladimir Kucherenko
Anna Frolovtseva

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A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister. After they are stopped by a train guard, they continue their travel on foot. The father battles against his alcohol addiction and the son is fascinated with the idea of flight. One rainy day an old man accepts them in his house in return for the repair of the roof. The father gives in to the alcohol offered by the old man, who in a drunken brawl accuses him of stealing money and shoots him. A young female village doctor takes care of him and a romantic relationship between the two ensues. The father feels reluctant to continue the journey. The son leaves alone and a truck driver gives him a ride to Koktebel. However, his aunt has left for the summer.

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Eye for Film - 7/10 by Anton Bitelhere the father and son are not so much returning home as trying to build a new one on the foundations of Russia's history, in a terra incognita where values, and even names, have changed.
User Review - 10/10 by Geoff WExcellent movie. From what I got it was about the acceptance of ambition and ho life's limitations mean that some dreams are dangerous to the dreamer if they are actualised, but if they are kept as dreams they can help us through life. (The strangling of the Albatross followed by its release when his father finds him
User Review - 10/10 by Glub HPerfectly visualised! Very realistic and intimate story!
User Review - 8/10 by Scott AAnother typical Russian arthouse piece. An exercise in shoegazing, but I was drawn in by its atmosphere.
User Review - 8/10 by Private UBeautiful cinematography coupled with some lovely characters. I loved very much.
User Review - 8/10 by Markus CVery sparse and ambient. A wonderful account of a father and sons journey to Koktebel form Moscow. They have no means of transport
User Review - 8/10 by Matt UA study in living a drab existence (not difficult in rural Ukraine, apparently), trying to find meaning in it, and growing up. Recommended.
User Review - 8/10 by Itamar KCan't say I really connected with the story or the characters - possibly because I'm not that familiar with Russian culture. The cinematography, though, was some of the best I've ever seen, and for that alone it was a pleasure.
User Review - 8/10 by Kevan OEven if the characters were separated and distant from the viewer, we still felt compelled to help them and to know them. Khlebnikov and Popogrebsky used long, wide shots to show this growing distance, even between the characters. Little to no background music was used, giving the film a feeling of reality--cold, harsh reality. The boy looks out of the attic window in one scene, the light and framing working in harmony to produce an utterly beautiful shot. The contrast between the warm golden candle-lit attic and the dreary nighttime scenery outside mirrors the contrast between the boy's desire to go to Koktebel and the responsibility he feels towards staying with his alcoholic father. The boy's maturity is strange, but reasonable as we find out what his childhood was like. In the attic scene, we view the boy from behind. Then, the camera angle switches to below, looking up into the attic. The silhouette of the son is once again symmetrically framed. We cut back to the behind-shot of the boy, and once again the warm glow surrounds us. Then the camera switches again, back to the below-looking-up shot, and the coldness of the night replaces the glow. The back-and-forth switches signifies the inner turmoil felt by the boy. Finally, the boy leaves. He runs off, leaving his father with the final words "All you do here is fuck each other." In response, the father calls his son an idiot, showing the man's immaturity and ignorance. Getting a ride from a friendly truck-driver [about whom I had my doubts], the boy reaches Koktebel, which is now called a different name. He stands at the top of a hill, at the glider monument. His father had earlier told him that at this spot, a piece of paper would fly far away if you let it go. The boy tries this, and fails. Fail a second time, then a third. His continual failure, and the accompanying apathy, causes the viewer to cringe in sympathy and worry. The paper won't fly. Then, the fourth time: it flies. It glides out of the frame, and the boy runs after it. The camera lingers, then blacks out into the next shot. Superb camerawork and timing by the directors, plus the very believable humanity of the actors, make this film a sad but glorious work.
User Review - 8/10 by pedro tAttractive, slow-core Russian road movie about a down-on-his-luck man travelling cross-country with his 12yr old son, in hopes of settling into a normal life, following the death of his wife and his (hinted at) recovery from alcoholism. The film plays on the contrasting expectations for the future of father and son, the difference between their dreams and how the son is stubbornly - and passionately - prepared to go it alone.

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