Weather Makers

»Amazing images!«

»Impressive, haunting images!«

»A film of haunting beauty! Mucha proves himself once again to be a shrewd storyteller: with a close eye, he tracks down the bizarre and the offbeat, creating a tension rare for documentaries.«

»Grandiose landscapes and a setting fit for "Star Wars"!«

»Mucha makes films about the limits of civilization – but despite the tough subject matter, they're almost like comedies.«

»A documentary as frightening as it is impressive!«

»Relentless and thrilling!«

»In the cold, hostile area around the lighthouse, Mucha, his assistant and his cameraman have to help keep it warm: "I burned my shoes out of desperation. It just didn't want to burn anything there, but then that really burned." In winter, Chodowaricha has temperatures as low as -28 degrees Celsius.«

»Breathtaking shots of ice and coast and absurd, intimate moments. Much like Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, a quiet narrative voice chronicles life in isolation.«

»In a quiet, dense way that makes every moment revelatory, Stanislaw Mucha's film depicts life at the weather station and what led its residents to choose this extraordinary workplace.«

»From this film speaks the amazement of how people can stand it in this loneliness... possibly it is not surprising that people here become at least a little strange.«

»A fascinating and impressive film!«

»The longer you observe the weather station, the more existential chasms reveal themselves – but also moments of joy!«

»Mucha creates considerable suspense with his laconic commentary and plenty of storytelling!«

»An unagitated film that tells of the simplicity of life, but which also makes you quite happy that you live a different life and don't have to enter isolation. You can feel the madness in the images this film delivers, always crouching just out of sight, but slowly stalking you…«

»Mucha, for whom every film project is also a journey, loves extremes. Without being able to say exactly why ...«

»Cinematographer Marcus Winterbauer captures the mood of the seasons in stunning images!«

»In "Weather Makers" Stanislaw Mucha delivers observations far beyond the weather: he looks into the soul of a country that set the world on fire in Ukraine.«

»Beneath the daily routine of work, subtly unfolded in documentary form, lies a dark, bloody, psychotic primordial ground that Stanisław Mucha evokes with the mischievous understatement of a fairy tale uncle.«

»An extreme documentary worth seeing!«

»Suspenseful like a thriller!«