The Last Black Sea Pirates (2013) User Reviews

Different and intriguing

[neilor-1 · 8/10 · 28 November 2018]

The film is a mix of documentary and semi-featured made with non-professional actors. I live 50 km. from place where it was shot - Karadere - one of the last wild places on the Black Sea coast. I find it difficult to determine what is the real fate of the characters is in the film, and what is artistic fiction - all is mixed and unusual. The film is slow and narrative at first but soon you are drawn into the stories of hermits who left civilization to look for treasure. It is worth seeing the film because of the visual art and the different view of the people's stories.

The Lavender Hill Mob meets Lord of the Flies

[chaplin1-660-883267 · 10/10 · 27 January 2014]

Lord of the Flies type existence on a Black Sea beach with a mob of would be pirates ever hopeful to find the hidden treasure left somewhere on in the bay by a real pirate of the Ottoman empire. The mob's sense of friendship and bonding is depicted affectionately and with humour. The members of the mob are bound together through their need to escape from the realities of the life off the beach and by the eternal hope and expectation that any day now they will find the gold that will transform their lives. So they dig and they plan how to spend the money. This wonderful story, beautifully told, seldom feels like a documentary. These are sympathetic characters faced with insoluble problems. Their escape from reality is only possible as long as they stay together.