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Chasm

dir. Wojciech Kasperski / Poland 2009 / 34’

subtitles: English

Polish Short Movies Competition 7109 km, A Tag, All Anna's Little Lies, An Idea, Blue, Canal, Charon Taxi, Chasm, Chemo, Chick, City With No God, Decalogue 89+ – the Seventh: Street Feeling, Different Story, Early Learning, Grandma Has Gone, Hands, Happy Jews, I Know Who Did It, Incantatio, Inventorium of Traces, Kids and Fish Have No Voice, Last Supper, Long Distance Runner, Long Live The Funeral!!!, Lucky, Meles Meles, Merry Christmas, Mother, Mr. F, Nowhere Blues, Observe the Sabbath and Keep It Holy, On Credit, Panta Rhei, Pause, Polish Film Novel, Pupeeds, Puppets, Rabbit a la Berlin, Scream, Sicilian Flea, Side Track, Six Weeks, Sleep-Walkers, Strawberry Fields, Szeol, The Actors, The Answer, The Bay, The Contract, The Day After Tomorrow, The Gravediggers, The Incident, The Lucky Ones, The Rest of the World, Vena cava, What the Doctors Say, Where the Sun Doesn't Rush, Yoko Ono's Cups Section index

Film description

An intimate portrait of gold fever. The gold-bearing mountains of Northen Siberia are the background for the Jack London style story: A Lonely Gold Seeker is looking for his Treasure. He is surrounded by unfriendly nature and by people he can't trust. Being chased by his own fears, he breaks up with the whole world and shuts himself in the trap of his great desire.

elaboration: Agata Bratek