Melting Souls

Norilsk is an impossible kind of place In this Arctic city winter lasts for nine months and temperatures plummet to 60C Norilsk Nickel the first worldwide producer of copper and nickel has dominated life since the city rose from the ashes of the Soviet gulag More than 180000 people manage to survive in this closedoff city isolated from the outside world In looking at their extraordinary daily lives this film paints a poetic portrait of an extreme city where everyone is looking for a way out