The sun begins its long, slow, horizontal descent. It does not set. It waits . For forty-seven minutes (the film shows this in real time), the sun hangs just above the northern horizon, a perfect disc of molten Baltic gold. The sky turns the colour of a bruise—lavender, rose, and deep, bruised blue. The Neva River is a sheet of beaten metal. No one speaks. Misha stops painting. Viktor stops breathing. The Finnish woman stops filming, her camera hanging from her wrist.
The documentary genre covering Baltic ferries often focuses on the 1994 MS Estonia disaster but revisits the safety standards of vessels operating the St. Petersburg–Stockholm/Helsinki routes. baltic sun at st petersburg 2003 documentary new
: The film explores the culture of naturism (nudism) in St. Petersburg, Russia. The sun begins its long, slow, horizontal descent