Film: How I Ended This Summer / Как я провёл этим летом

By Tara Murray

Wednesday, October 24, 6:15 pm, Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
How I Ended This Summer – «Как я провёл этим летом», 2010, dir. Alexey Popogrebsky.

“A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once
strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere…” —summary by the Koktebel Film Company (source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588875/).

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Winner of numerous international awards, including:
The Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin)
Outstanding Artistic Achievement in Category “Camera” (Yerevan, Armenia)
Best Film at the 46th Chicago International Film Festival.

The event is free and open to the public. The film is in Russian with English subtitles.

Sponsored by the Penn State Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Center for Global Studies, the Patterno Library , Penn State Students in Russian