The Gulls
2015-02-07 | 87 minutes
Plot Summary
Elza lives in a small town in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea. Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see. One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. It is said that a fisherman only returns if he has a woman waiting for him and that seagulls are the souls of the missing. At the start of a somewhat unplanned pregnancy, widowed and alone, Elza wanders ever further through the city, plotting a path between tradition and the contemporary until she’s no longer on familiar ground.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
The Python
-
Heat
-
Fires Within
-
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
-
El triunfo
-
Iris
-
The Shoe
-
The Path of Happiness
-
Face of a Stranger
-
The Whole Shebang
-
Copying Beethoven
-
Nowhere in Africa
-
When Saturday Comes
-
A Real Young Girl
-
Jellyfish
-
Heute fängt mein Leben an
-
The Forest for the Trees
-
Cherry Blossoms
-
Noch einmal lieben
-
Talk to Me