Eponymous Zhalanash is a port city over the Aral Sea. This place between a great water and a vast desert which used to be a prosperous link of the Soviet economy is just a shadow of its former glory today. In Marcin Sauter’s film, Zhalanash is not only about evocative landscape, but, above all, about the fates of people who invested their hopes and expectations into the place between the sea and the desert and now ponder over their solitude among the wrecks of ships and port cranes.
MARCIN SAUTER
Photographer, cinematographer and film director. Born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, he has had several dozen individual exhibitions of photography. He teaches at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He established the foundation The Bydgoszcz Newsreel. His adventure with the cinema started in 1997 when he cooperated with Maciej Cuske on the feature film “What Do You Think About It, Gałuszko?”. Then, he continued with such documentaries as “The Travelling Cinema” (2005), “North From Calabria” (2009) and “Hakawati” (2011).
Screenings
GALLERY THEATRE
(1112 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
TUESDAY, 11/14/2018 7:00 pm.
2017, 40 min, Poland
Kazakh, Russian with English subtitles
Direction/Reżyseria
MARCIN SAUTER
Script/Scenariusz
MARCIN SAUTER
Cinematography/Zdjęcia
MARCIN SAUTER
Editing/Montaż
MICHAŁ MARCZAK,
ZIEMOWIT JAWORSKI,
KATARZYNA ORZECHOWSKA
Music/Muzyka
JERZY ROGIEWICZ
Sound/Dźwięk
MARCIN LENARCZYK
Produced by/Produkcja
KRONIKA FILM STUDIO
Producer/Producent
BARBARA ŁAWSKA