Director: Johnny O’Reilly
Original Title: Прячься
Language: RussianMain Cast: Marina Alexandrova, Petr Logachev, Sergey Garmash, Alexei Guskov, Anton Shagin
Ivanov and Drozdov have spent the last decade living in a shack-like weather station where their only job is to take weather measurements and report them a couple of times a day. Their cook and houseboy is a 19-year-old troublemaking orphan who spends his days gliding through the house like a ghost. The weather station and its inhabitants are turned upside down when they hear news of its imminent decommissioning, and then receive an unexpected guest. When an SOS is sent and everyone at the station disappears, detectives arrive to investigate. Set on a snowbound mountain in remote Russia, The Weather Station is a lustrously photographed thriller that warps and shifts through time. Inspired by Hitchcock, writer/director Johnny O’Reilly interweaves two gripping, parallel narratives that draw the audience into this noir thriller.
The Weather Station Dir. Johnny O’Reilly
- Russia, Ireland, Germany, UK
- 83 mins
- 2010
- Thriller
- Colour
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The Bottom Line:
Irish Moscow-based director throws up a terrifically sharp, taut thriller set in freezing rural Russia… a cracking drama which has travelled the world. Not a wasted frame.