The loneliest workplace in the world at a weather station on the edge of the Russian Arctic Ocean: a professional soldier retrained as a meteorologist and traumatized in the Chechen war; his young wife, whose previous life in the world of big cities and money was a brutal failure; a cancer-stricken pensioner who has returned to his birthplace; the station’s boss - with a dubious, if not criminal, past; and Jack the dog.
Weathermakers
Stanislaw Mucha
Born in 1970 in Nowy Targ/Poland. Studied Acting at the State Theater School “Ludwik Solski” in Krakow. Work as an actor and director’s assistant in the theater. Studied at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Active as director.
2002 ABSOLUT WARHOLA, Dokumentarfilm
2004 DIE MITTE, Dokumentarfilm
2005 REALITY SHOCK, Dokumentarfilm HOF 2005
2007 ZIGEUNER, TV-Dokumentarfilm
2008 HOPE, Spielfilm HOF 2005
2010 DIE WAHRHEIT ÜBER DRACULA, Dokumentarfilm HOF 2005
2011 DIE PFANDLEIHER, TV-Dokumentarfilm
2012 HAPPY END, TV-Dokumentarfilm
2014 TRISTIA – EINE SCHWARZMEERODYSEE, Dokumentarfilm HOF 2014
2015 AUS DER KURVE, Fernsehfilm
2017 KOLYMA – STRASSE DER KNOCHEN, Dokumentarfilm
2021 DIE WETTERMACHER, Dokumentarfilm Hof 2021
“It was supposed to be a film about a man who has been researching the weather for years in the total solitude of the Russian Arctic. About a weatherman. But it turned out quite differently than we could ever have expected. With the camera, we followed four hermits and their extremely film-talented dog, whose life unfortunately came to a bad end before the end of the filming. We visited them in autumn, winter and summer and captured their everyday struggle with the cold, storms and isolation. This is existential theater - tragic and comic at the same time. The work of these meteorologists also influences weather forecasts here at home, but what goes on there surpasses any imagination one could possibly have. Do not expect a film about climate change! Where we were, you forget how to spell the word climate. In this ‘somewhere in the middle of nowhere’, the environment is so polluted by mankind that you would think we were using the apocalyptic set design from STAR WARS.”