Haulout (2022) on Netflix
NR202225mDocumentary
Marine biologist Maxim Chakilev spends three months each autumn in a hut on the Russian Arctic coast, watching for the walruses that come ashore. Warming seas are shrinking the ice.
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Plot summary
Maxim Chakilev is a marine biologist who spends three months each autumn alone at his remote hut on the coast of Chukotka, in the Russian Arctic. He is there to observe the walruses that gather at Cape Heart-Stone, a beach on the Chukchi Sea whose name means Heart-Stone in Russian. They return to the same beach year after year. The animals need to rest on land, and they also mate during that time; the term haulout describes this going ashore. Warming seas and rising temperatures make the ice recede, so the living space available to the walruses dwindles, and in some phases the water is entirely ice-free.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Haulout (2022)
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- While filming Haulout in Chukotka over three months, sibling directors Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev were pinned inside Maxim Chakilev's hut by tightly packed walruses three times, each siege lasting about a week, leaving them claustrophobic and enduring excruciating smells.
- Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev went to a Chukotka beach in 2018 for a photography project on Chuchi people, met marine biologist Maxim Chakilev there, and turned his work into the documentary Haulout, filmed in 2020.
- The year the crew shot in Chukotka, 2020, brought record-high temperatures and a record-high number of walrus deaths.
