Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2024 March 10

= March 10 =

Soviet film
Can anyone identify a rather bleak film, possibly made post-2000, set in the Arctic circle. Three men are staffing a radar or weather station whose power source is a nuclear reactor the size of a small car. Two leave by snowmobile for a scheduled staff changeover, but the expected replacement never arrives. The lone remainder deliberately opens the reactor, presumably to kill himself by radiation. Doug butler (talk) 02:32, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * If it was made in this century, it is not a Soviet film. --Lambiam 16:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Agreed. A poor choice of title, as I realised after hitting "Submit". Doug butler (talk) 19:49, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Maybe How I Ended This Summer (Как я провёл этим летом)? Alansplodge (talk) 17:34, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * That would certainly be it. Thanks once again. Doug butler (talk)


 * The article describes the setting as a "Soviet-era weather station", so the remembrance of it as a "Soviet film" is understandable. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.186.221 (talk) 20:16, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Captain Oates's way would be less painful, I imagine. —Tamfang (talk) 21:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)