Synopsis
Skerry-18 (Шхера-18, 2011) is a quiet Russian drama you can watch online on iFILM. Former special-forces soldier Yevgeny Sormatov travels to a remote lake in Karelia. He carries two things with him: the last letter of his comrade Andrei Yegorov, killed several years earlier, and the Hero of Russia medal awarded to Andrei after his death.
On one of the skerries, in a near-abandoned fishing village, live Andrei's father and sister. Sormatov has to hand over the letter and the decoration — and step straight into someone else's grief, a grief he quietly shares part of. This is an intimate film about memory, duty and a homecoming the dead man will never have. Danila Kozlovsky, Timur Yefremenkov and Elena Nikolaeva star, with Nikolay Dreyden directing. One for viewers who prefer slow, human stories over war heroics. Stream Skerry-18 online on iFILM.
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