The Strait Guys (2022)

Weltpremiere: É tudo Verdade (It’s All True), Brasilien, April 2022

Nordamerikanische Premiere: North x North Festival & Summit, USA, April 2022 (mit Regisseur Rick Minnich)

Europäische Premiere: Berlin, 2.6.22, 19.30, Babylon Berlin (mit Filmteam)

Ozeanian Premiere: Doc Edge, Neuseeland, Juni 2022

Westküste Premiere: Green Film Festival of San Francisco, USA, September 2022 (mit Regisseur Rick Minnich)

Niederländische Premiere: International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam IDFA, Niederlanden, November 2022 (mit Regisseur Rick Minnich)

Deutsche Festivalpremiere: Ökofilmtour Brandenburg, April 2023 (mit Regisseur Rick Minnich)

Osteuropäische Premiere: Moldox International Documentary Film Festival for Social Change, Moldova, June 2023 (mit Regisseur Rick Minnich)

Ostküste Premiere: Global Peace Film Festival, Orlando, Florida, September 2023

Niederlande: Beholders Documentary Dialogues, Oktober 2023

Weltweit: Fort Ross Dialogue (online), 30. November 2023

Europäische Premiere: Berlin, 2.6.2022, 19.30, Babylon Berlin (mit Filmteam)

Weitere Vorstellungen mit Team

Berlin
3.6.22, 19.00 Moviemento
8.6.22, 20.30 Krokodil

Karlsruhe
5.6.22, 13.00 Schauburg

Tübingen
5.6.22, 19.00 Arsenal

Joachimsthal
16.9.22, 19.30 Kulturhaus Heidekrug 2.0

Potsdam-Babelsberg
18.9.22, 10.30 Thalia

Leipzig
16.4.23, 17.00 Kinobar Prager Frühling

Fürstenberg/Havel
21.4.23, 19.00 Kulturgasthof „Alte Reederei“

Andere Städte

Kanada: Knowledge Network, 29.11.22
Deutschland: MDR, 16.4.23, 28.1.24

• “What distinguishes a visionary from a dreamer?  The Strait Guys poses that question in a surprising documentary about a 76-year-old Czech mining engineer, and his fast-talking protege as they pursue their mission to connect Russia and the United States by building a 100 kilometer train tunnel beneath the Bering Strait.  At a time when Russia and the U.S. are more hostile to each other since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and climate change threatens the entire globe, and particularly the Artic, this film could not be more timely.” – Mark Jonathan Harris, three-time Oscar-winning director (“Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories from the Kindertransport”, “The Long Way Home”)

• “An extradionary film. Visionary, inspirational and filled with hope for a more connected world.” – Lynne Cox, world record-holding endurance swimmer who swam across the Bering Strait from the US to the USSR in 1987
• „Wavering on the precipice between adoration and satire, THE STRAIT GUYS neatly indulges the subject matter of outlandish but ultimately inevitable human ambition.“ – Dennis Schmitt, polar explorer
• “An intriguing and visually stunning film that blends geopolitics, economics, and technology but keeps people at the center of its story. The Strait Guys follows one man’s dream of a tunnel under the Bering Strait, while also introducing a wide range of other compelling figures, from boosters and small-town majors to Kremlin operatives and local Alaskan communities. The film shows at once the attraction of thinking big and the costs of doing so. An emotionally compelling achievement.” – Paul W. Werth, Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Villa Aurora presented “The Strait Guys” at a sold-out event. The film engaged the audience from the start, leading to a lively discussion with the filmmaker about the protagonists’ pursuit of “peace, progress, and prosperity”, the cost to the individuals, and the necessity of attempting the impossible to further an exchange between nations. – Dr. Claudia Gordon, Director Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House, Pacific Palisades, California
• “I highly recommend reaching out to Rick if you have any interest to bring the real documentary filmmaking world to your classroom students.” – Brian Sisselman, Adjunct Professor School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University
• We all need to know one another and see each other as friends and co-inhabitants of this beautiful planet, not as enemies. What a massive, ambitious and visionary project. We need a transformation in discovering we are all brothers and sisters! A train could help bring the people of the US and Russia and the world closer together, but somehow we need to pressure our governments. This train could help facilitate communication, travel, visits and trade. – David Hartsough, co-founder of World Beyond War and author of WAGING PEACE: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist
  

Interviews mit Rick (auf Englisch):

• Renegade, Inc. – Interview mit Rick und mit Scott Spencer, Leitender Projektberater der InterKontinentalen Eisenbahn
• “Spontaneous Moments of Conversation” mit Leon Logothetis bei YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
• RNZ Radio New Zealand – Interview mit Rick
• Met Film School – Interview mit Dokumentarfilmdozenten Rick Minnich

Filmkritiken:

Englisch

• Film Threat (8 of 10) – “The Strait Guys is full of thrills and surprises, even though you know the ending without ever having heard this story before.”

Deutsch

• Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Vorwärts – “Megaprojekt für Frieden am Ende der Welt”
• Cinema.de
• Kino-Zeit.de – “Ein bloßer Traum oder ein reales Menschheitsprojekt?” (“A mere dream or a project for humanity?”)
• Biograph.de
• Tag24.de – “… ein menschliches Werk voller Herzblut.” (“… a human work full of heart and soul.”)
• Filmstarts.de
• Berlin.de

Portugiesisch

• Esquina da cultura – “An intense and touching film about dreams.”

• Renegade, Inc. – Interview mit Rick und mit Scott Spencer, Leitender Projektberater der InterKontinentalen Eisenbahn
• “Spontaneous Moments of Conversation” mit Leon Logothetis bei YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
• RNZ Radio New Zealand – Interview mit Rick
• Met Film School – Interview mit Dokumentarfilmdozenten Rick Minnich

Filmkritiken:

Englisch

• Film Threat (8 of 10) – “The Strait Guys is full of thrills and surprises, even though you know the ending without ever having heard this story before.”

Deutsch

• Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Vorwärts – “Megaprojekt für Frieden am Ende der Welt”
• Cinema.de
• Kino-Zeit.de – “Ein bloßer Traum oder ein reales Menschheitsprojekt?” (“A mere dream or a project for humanity?”)
• Biograph.de
• Tag24.de – “… ein menschliches Werk voller Herzblut.” (“… a human work full of heart and soul.”)
• Filmstarts.de
• Berlin.de

Portugiesisch

• Esquina da cultura – “An intense and touching film about dreams.”