How I Ended This Summer (2010) on Netflix
Meteorology student Pavel Danilov interns at an Arctic weather station. His only company is Sergei Gulybin, a geophysicist. Sergei is away fishing when a radiogram arrives for him.
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On a remote Arctic island, a Soviet-era weather station is staffed for the summer by two men. Sergei Gulybin is a veteran geophysicist; Pavel Danilov is a meteorology student working as his intern. Every four hours they record weather and tide readings on old instruments and radio them to the state meteorology center. For a few days Sergei takes the boat out to fish without authorization and tells Pavel not to mention it. When the radio operator urgently asks for Sergei, Pavel makes excuses for him. A message then arrives about Sergei's wife and young son.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about How I Ended This Summer (2010)
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- Five polar bears lived near the shooting site of How I Ended This Summer; one of them "starred" in the film, and at the end of the shoot a young bear tried to have lunch with the director and cameraman.
- Alexei Popogrebski wrote one of the two parts in How I Ended This Summer for Sergey Puskepalis, who had starred in his earlier film Simple Things; when shown the Arctic location on a map, Puskepalis said he had lived near there for nine years as a child while his parents worked at a nuclear plant in Chukotka.
- The shoot began with the ocean still covered in ice in June; it snowed for the first time on 3 August, and the summer temperature at the location averaged 5 degrees.
