Perhaps the most stunning feature of How I Ended This Summer is its Arctic setting, the glorious wilderness presenting a grand, yet harsh spectacle every bit as sparse as the film's dialogue. It's a two-hander between Grigoriy Dobrygin's callow youth and the seasoned meteorologist played by Sergey Puskepalis.

"How I Ended This Summer" is a suspenseful movie, yet not in a traditional sense, as it neatly paced in a slow burn in a remote weather station that has an uneasy blend of ancient and new ...

How I Ended This Summer (Russian: Как я провёл этим летом, translit. Kak ya provyol etim letom) is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was critically acclaimed and garnered several awards and nominations; it was in the competition for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Alexei Popogrebsky: HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER is the third feature film from internationally acclaimed director, Alexei Popogrebsky. His first film, ROADS TO KOKTOBEL (also in the Film Movement feature film collection) was named FIPRESCI Discovery of the Year at the 2004 Cannes FF, and his second film SIMPLE THINGS , won worldwide acclaim after it premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

How I Ended This Summer (English Subtitled) On a desolate island in the Arctic Circle, gruff professional Sergei and his new partner Pavel work at a small meteorological station. One day while Sergei is out, inexperienced Pavel receives terrible news from HQ. Intimidated, Pavel can't bring himself to disclose the information.

Winner - Berlin FF. Among the haunting backdrop of the Artic, 2 men with fiery tempers ignite in a deadly conflict amidst thick fog and the cruel sea.

This week, in Alexei Popogrebsky's How I Ended This Summer, we have an equally harsh story with a cast of two, set on an Arctic island in Chukotka, at the extreme north-eastern tip of Russia.