Oil Rocks City Above the Sea La Cité du Pétrole TRAILER

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THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH AN UPDATED HD VERSION. • TO ACCESS IT: • OIL ROCKS - CITY ABOVE THE SEA / Docu... • • THE FULL FILM IS AVAILABLE ON VIMEO (VOD) • https://vimeo.com/ondemand/oilrocks • (V.O., w/English subtitles) • https://vimeo.com/ondemand/citedupetrole • (French version, dubbed) • • SYNOPSIS • THE OIL ROCKS - Behind this enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil town ever built. A vast, sprawling web of oil platforms in the middle of the Caspian Sea, commissioned by Stalin in 1949. • Imagine: 2,000 oil rigs, 300 kilometres of bridges, rusty old Soviet trucks rolling back and forth, nine-storey building blocks, thousands of oil workers, a cultural palace, a lemonade factory, a green park... • Sixty years on, the Oil Rocks still stand. But two-thirds of the infrastructure has been regained by the sea. A kind of Oil Atlantis, only real. • Combining black-and-white archives from the Soviet era and contemporary footage, the film tells the story of this timeless place and of some of its amazing inhabitants. • It is the first time a Western film crew is allowed to make a documentary on the site since its creation. • Director: Marc Wolfensberger (www.thin-line.net) • Camera: Jon Björgvinsson • Sound: Blaise Gabioud • Editing: Patrick Léger, Peter Entell, Ana Acosta • Producer: Isabelle Gattiker • Production companies: Swiss TV TSR, Intermezzo Films, Thin Line Productions • Co-producers: YLE (Finland), MDR (Germany) • Length format: 52 min, DigiBeta / HD • International sales: www.intermezzofilms.com, www.thin-line.net

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