Summer House

Summer House

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 31, 1992

Runtime

1h 4m

Genres

Drama, Fantasy

Original Title

Сайылык

Director

Anatoly Vasiliev

Description

Produced for newly independent Sakha television in the early nineties, Summer House is a pioneering document of a film culture in the making. The directorial debut of actor Anatoly Vasiliev, who also stars, the film tells the seemingly simple story of a man returning to his native village to purchase a house, only to find himself caught between the worlds of the living and the dead. Drawing on deep wells of Sakha spirituality and folk symbolism, and cast with local, non-professional actors, Summer House is a rarely-seen gem of independent filmmaking and a key piece of Sakha film history.