Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Oil Rocks - City Above the Sea / La Cité du Pétrole / TRAILER
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Oil Rocks - City Above the Sea / La Cité du Pétrole / TRAILER Tube. Duration : 4.78 Mins.
THE OIL ROCKS - Behind this enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil town ever built. A vast, sprawling web of oil platforms in the middle of the Caspian Sea, commissioned by Stalin in 1949. Imagine: 2000 oil rigs, 300 kilometres of bridges, rusty old Soviet trucks rolling back and forth, nine-storey building blocks, thousands of oil workers, a cultural palace, a lemonade factory, a green park... Sixty years on, the Oil Rocks still stand. But two-thirds of the infrastructure has been regained by the sea. A kind of Oil Atlantis, only real. Combining black-and-white archives from the Soviet era and contemporary footage, the film tells the story of this timeless place and of some of its amazing inhabitants. It is the first time a Western film crew is allowed to make a documentary on the site since its creation. Director: Marc Wolfensberger (www.thin-line.net) Camera: Jon Björgvinsson Sound: Blaise Gabioud Editing: Patrick Léger, Peter Entell, Ana Acosta Producer: Isabelle Gattiker Production companies: Swiss TV TSR, Intermezzo Films, Thin Line Productions Co-producers: YLE (Finland), MDR (Germany) Length & format: 52 min, DigiBeta / HD International sales: Autlook Filmsales / www.autlookfilms.com
THE OIL ROCKS - Behind this enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil town ever built. A vast, sprawling web of oil platforms in the middle of the Caspian Sea, commissioned by Stalin in 1949. Imagine: 2000 oil rigs, 300 kilometres of bridges, rusty old Soviet trucks rolling back and forth, nine-storey building blocks, thousands of oil workers, a cultural palace, a lemonade factory, a green park... Sixty years on, the Oil Rocks still stand. But two-thirds of the infrastructure has been regained by the sea. A kind of Oil Atlantis, only real. Combining black-and-white archives from the Soviet era and contemporary footage, the film tells the story of this timeless place and of some of its amazing inhabitants. It is the first time a Western film crew is allowed to make a documentary on the site since its creation. Director: Marc Wolfensberger (www.thin-line.net) Camera: Jon Björgvinsson Sound: Blaise Gabioud Editing: Patrick Léger, Peter Entell, Ana Acosta Producer: Isabelle Gattiker Production companies: Swiss TV TSR, Intermezzo Films, Thin Line Productions Co-producers: YLE (Finland), MDR (Germany) Length & format: 52 min, DigiBeta / HD International sales: Autlook Filmsales / www.autlookfilms.com
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