A film in six chapters94 minutes70.98 N 25.97 E
One winter at a weather station where the road, the power line and the daylight all stop. Told by the four people who keep it running.
The chapters
A new chapter every Friday until the sun is back. Each stands alone; together they run for ninety-four minutes.
Sixty metres of steel and one lamp. Every third day somebody climbs it to knock the ice off.
Play chapter6
Chapters
94
Minutes
58
Days without sun
-41
Coldest night, Celsius
Ways to watch
Six chapters, one each Friday. Two are out, one comes this week.
SoundThe film is quiet for long stretches. That is the film, not your speakers.
DelayedChapter 04 moves from 5 to 12 December. The supply flight was late too.
| No. | Chapter | Told by | Minutes | Watched | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | The mast | The technician | 21 | 58% | Playing |
| 02 | The hut | The cook | 17 | 0% | Out now |
| 03 | The ice | The observer | 14 | 0% | This Friday |
| 04 | The supply flight | The pilot | 16 | 0% | Delayed |
| 05 | The long night | All four | 15 | 0% | 19 December |
| 06 | First light | The observer | 11 | 0% | When the sun is backPlanned for 26 December. If the sky is clouded on the day, it waits for the next clear noon. |
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How saving worksChapter one. Sixty metres of steel, one lamp, and the person who climbs it.
It carries four instruments, one aerial and the only lamp for ninety kilometres.
Ice grows on the stays at about a centimetre a day. Left alone, it would bring the mast down in a month, so every third day somebody goes up with a wooden mallet and a line.
One camera stayed on the ground and one went up in a chest harness. The climb is shown at full length; the log entry for the day reads M3 cleared 11:40.
Spoken in two languages, with subtitles in seven. Choose them under Watch.
A described version of every chapter comes out on the same Friday.
Filmed by a crew of three over eleven days in November.
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