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At the outer reaches of eastern Siberia lies a remote and forgotten island. In 1890, Anton Chekhov crossed Siberia from Moscow to the island of Sakhalin, a cloud-blackened place of exile, punishment and coal. His curiosity as a doctor and a writer attracted him to its inhuman penal colony, on which he would write a concise, objective and terrifying account. A century after his death, this documentary retraces the writer’s journey and attempts to re-transcribe Chekhov’s view of eternal Russia. Mixing past and present, it relates for the first time the history of this oil-rich island and meets the descendants of its men and women, convicts or political exiles.

France - 2007 - 52 mn - DV Cam • 4/3 • PAL - Colour

Director Antoine Jesel Writer Guth Joly, Antoine Jesel Sound Nicolas Volto, Mike Pobo Lawali Editing Antoine Jesel Music Chozparei

Production BRUT Productions, 44, avenue du Professeur Grasset, 34090 Montpellier, France Tél : +33 (0)4 6760 7089 E-mail : laurent.galmot@yahoo.fr

Sales Anne-Marie Rombourg-Caraco Cinexport, Anne-Marie Rombourg-Caraco, 49 avenue Paul Doumer, 75116 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4562 4945 Fax : +33 (0)1 4503 3343 E-mail : cinexport@wanadoo.fr