Product Details

• Actors: Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Csernyevics, Evgenii Sytyi, Vera Sandrykina, Vladimir Kucherenko
• Directors: Aleksei Popogrebsky, Boris Khlebnikov
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: Russian
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Film Movement
• DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000B58DIA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,851 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Roads to Koktebel" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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ROADS TO KOKTEBEL - DVD Movie

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Youthful dreams and desperate realities . . ., October 8, 2007

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Ronald Scheer "rockysquirrel" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roads to Koktebel (DVD)

This Russian road movie finds a father and 11-year-old son traveling hundreds of miles on foot from Moscow to a village on the Black Sea. The pace is slow and hypnotic; the situation is unpromising. They are out of money and the season is turning gradually toward winter. The storyline itself is elliptical and relies little if it at all on exposition. We simply watch as the two trudge onward, under leaden skies and across rain-swept distances, depending on the kindness of strangers. The boy, worldly wise beyond his years and distrusting his father, dreams of flight and wind sailing. He has a mysterious sort of second sight that permits him to see himself and his surroundings from high above. Meanwhile, earthbound, the camera follows the two of them across endless sodden, forlorn landscapes.

The people they meet along the way are often little better off than they are, living in a kind of defeated ennui, making do, getting by, lonely, and often sustained by alcohol. One man offers them shelter and a roofing job on a house that seems to be abandoned and falling down. When a more generous householder makes the boy even more impatient to reach their destination, the father's unwillingness to press on precipitates a final crisis. Finally, the movie is a long, melancholy but lyrically told story, with fine performances, about life journeys and the contrast between youthful dreams and desperate realities.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant Russian road movie, December 8, 2007

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Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roads to Koktebel (DVD)

A pleasant enough road movie, about a divorced man (or widowed, I don't remember) going with his young son from Moscow to the Crimea. He's an aeronautical engineer who has been fired and has hit the bad times (maybe with the recovery of Russia's economy under Putin, the argument is slightly out of date). We see them traveling through the countryside in a dilapidated train, and through the bad roads of Western Russia and Eastern Ukraine. Nothing much happens, but before reaching the Black Sea they stop at small towns, where they offer to repair the roof to a house where a mean old man lives, meet a pretty young doctor, etc. Some reviews I read wrote about the pair traveling through the desolate steppes of the former Soviet Union, yet this is some of the most fertile and densely populated part of that country. The pace is slow, though not terribly so, compared with traditional Russian cinema. And the characters seem real people, even if the plot is slightly farfetched. Reccommended.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a road movie, October 14, 2007

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RDSlug (Saskatchewan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roads to Koktebel (Original RUSSIAN version with ENGLISH subtitles) (DVD)

It's too bad the other reviewers couldn't enjoy this film. The whole idea of a 'road movie' is that the characters encounter different things and different people along the way and these things and people make an impression. The story - and there actually is one - is that the boy doesn't want to go in the beginning but when he realizes the significance of the journey, is compelled to finish it on his own.