Kak ya provyol etim letom) is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski.

It was critically acclaimed and garnered several awards and nominations; it was in the competition for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

[1] Meteorology student Pavel "Pasha" Danilov is spending the summer as an intern at an isolated, Soviet-era weather station on a remote Arctic island with only the older, experienced geophysicist Sergei Gulybin for company.

Their sole job is to collect weather and tide statistics every four hours and transmit them by radio to the meteorology center.

Eventually Pasha is told that Sergei's wife and young son have been "gravely injured" in an accident, although it is apparent they have been killed.

Sergei tells him an intimidating story about the time one geophysicist apparently killed the other due to their strained relationship.

When Sergei leaves to get more trout, Pasha is told that the ship is stuck in ice, but that a helicopter will come before the weather worsens.

Popogrebsky states in his interview with the Russian Magazine: Action, “if you look at the map, it is literally the end of the world”.

The Foggy Station, where one of the most intense scenes of the film was shot, is located at the northernmost geographical point of mainland Chukotka - Cape Shelagsky.

[5] After Popogrebski came back from the location scouting, he proudly showed this place on the map to Sergey Puskepalis, who starred in his previous movie, Simple Things, and for whom he wrote one of the two parts in the new script.

[7] As Popogrebski puts it himself, “All of us being city dwellers, we tell the story from the point of view of the younger character whose life experience is much closer to ours.

However, in making this film, our effort was to become subjects to the nature of extreme North, to let go of rigid pre-planned concepts and be open and attentive to what it could offer us.

The film establishes its two-character dynamic, a story of two personal (and incompatible) time-and-space scaled, using a psychologically tense narrative to explore the relationship between linear historical time and timeless.The older character, Sergei (Sergei Puskipalis) relies on old methods of collecting and transmitting meteorological data.

Perhaps in contemporary meteorological practice traditional and computerized methods are used conjointly; however, the director makes a clear point about the characters’ difference in the use of technology.

[10] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

He said Dobrygin and Puskepalis rightfully deserved their awards for their performances in the isolated setting, writing that "They almost seem like the last survivors in a post-apocalyptic world" and that he sees "Sergei and Pavel as representing different sides of Putin's Russia, one shaped by older traditional ways, the other struggling to discover a new set of values.

"[12] Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph gave it four stars, writing, that the director Popogrebsky "delivers a Tarkovskian parable about nuclear horror which also functions as a sustained and nail-biting psychological thriller.