The Sea at the Time of the Eclipse

The Sea at the Time of the Eclipse

2008 · 82 min · Drama

Val Sebald is an author who comes to the Island to retreat from life and land. There he lives among the islanders and his favorite women, the heroines of various maritime novels. His relations with actual women from his past are reduced to messages in bottles that he ceremonially throws into the water. Val brings the real and imaginary people together into a place he is comfortable with, while his real life also becomes more and more one with the sea and the underwater world.

Directed by Jure Pervanje · Written by Jure Pervanje

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