Aleksandr RASTORGUYEV
Александр РАСТОРГУЕВ
Aleksandr RASTORGOUEV
Russia, 2005, 340mn 
documentary
Tender's Heat. Wild Wild Beach. Full version
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Дикий. Дикий пляж. Жар нежных. Полная версия

 

 Sauvage. Plage sauvage. La chaleur des tendres. Version complète.

 Dikiy. Dikiy pliazh. Zhar nezhnykh. Polnaya versiya

 
Directed by : Aleksandr RASTORGUYEV (Александр РАСТОРГУЕВ)
Writing credits : Susanna BARANZHIEVA (Сусанна БАРАНЖИЕВА), Vitali MANSKY (Виталий МАНСКИЙ)
Cinematography : Eduard KECHEDZHIYAN (Эдуард КЕЧЕДЖИЯН), Pavel KOSTOMAROV (Павел КОСТОМАРОВ)
Music : Aleksandr PANTYUKHIN (Александр ПАНТЮХИН)
Produced by : Vitali MANSKY (Виталий МАНСКИЙ)
Production : Вертов / Vertov
 

Plot synopsis
According to a drunk, middle-aged woman who always wanted to be an actress, "Happiness is when someone understands you, when someone loves you." Her equally inebriated boyfriend is so jealous that he smacks her time and again. Director Alexander Rastorguev follows the tragicomic couple during their summer holiday by the sea. But he also directs his camera at other seaside visitors, like the man earning a living on the beach with a camel, a young womaniser, and a dwarf getting married to a young woman. They are all spending the summer on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Rastorguev observes man in all of his manifestations: fat, thin, young, old, drunk, dancing, singing, having sex and bathing in mud or in the sea. Even President Putin makes an appearance, clad in casual clothes. Quite a few fortune-seekers at the resort get caught up in a daily carrousel of sex, booze and aggression. When a corpse washes ashore, several people say they would also like to drown in the sea. It is no surprise that the soundtrack repeatedly plays a song of longing, about a small boat all alone at sea: "What is it looking for so far from home? Not happiness, but a typhoon."
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Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2022
- International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana", Perm (Russia), 2021
- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2020