Documentary A / CH / D 2001, 95 min., 35mm Script: Johannes Holzhausen Director of Photography: Joerg Burger Editing: Michael Palm Producers: Johannes Rosenberger, Constantin Wulff
with Nikolaj Bobrakov, Tatjana Chervonnaja, Sergej Chervonnyj, Anton Jakovlev, Nikolaj Melakh, Mikhail Moiseev, Valentin Pechatin, Sergej Shishkov
A production of Navigator Film in co-production with Dschoint Ventschr AG (CH); Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion (D)
Once the pride of the Soviet fleet, the aircraft carrier Kiev sets off on its final voyage - being towed to China. The collapse of the Soviet Union also robbed former crew members of their place in society. For them, the Kiev has long faded into a visual memento, a ghost ship that constantly sails through its protagonists' dreams.
ON THE SEVEN SEAS offers a differentiated picture of a sunken superpower, with all the contradictions and the lack of orientation that followed. "The flag is already badly frayed," an ex-crew-member says. "So too are our lives".
