Pomor True Story

Pomor True Story

1987 · 10 min · ★ 4.8 · Animation, Drama

Andrian and Ivan are two brother-sailors who worked in Arkhangelsk as a carved artists. And so, at the end of August they decided, like loons, to go to the island. When the men were already far away in the sea, they moored to a small patch of land and began to have a dinner. After the dinner they decided to go to sleep and go home in the morning. But they could not even imagine what disaster awaited them in the night.

Directed by Leonid Nosyrev · Written by Yuriy Koval

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