Vivan Las Antipodas!

Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Production: Ma Ja De, 2009
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For ”Vivan las Antipodas!” Victor Kossakovsky takes us on a unique trip around the globe – to the world's few places, situated exactly opposite each other. With breathtaking images and a stunning montage Kossakovsky approaches the philosophically appealing and politically delicate subject of the antipodes.

Filming will take place in eight pairs of locations on Earth which are precisely opposite each other. We might accompany a lonely fisherman in an Argentine village and a lonely woman, fish seller on a noisy Shanghai street. Or a Chilean lighthouse keeper on Cape Horn and a Russian deck officer aboard ship on Lake Baikal. Their stories will be antithetic contrary – and then again similar at the very same time. Whatever Kossakovsky might encounter, he will turn the moment into his typical cinematic poetry. Thus, in Kossakovsky's words: “Vivan las Antipodas! is a poem of a multipolar world.”