The Sailor

The Sailor (2021)

Eighty-year-old Paul Erling Johnson is a man most people might walk past, never guessing he was once a seafaring adventurer and famous boat designer.

Date of release
2021-04-29
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Lucia Kasova

Casting

Interesting facts

The Sailor is a 2021 Slovak documentary film directed by Lucia Kašová. The film follows Paul Johnson, an elderly sailor living aboard his boat near Carriacou in Grenada the Caribbean, as he confronts old age, isolation and the end of his life at sea.

Production

The Sailor was directed and written by Lucia Kašová and produced by Nazarij Kľujev for the Slovak production company TOXPRO. Martin Jurči served as cinematographer, Roman Kelemen as editor and Martin Turčan composed the music.

Kašová originally became interested in people living outside conventional social and national structures on Caribbean islands. After meeting Paul Johnson on Carriacou, she changed the focus of the project from a broader portrait of sailors to an individual portrait of Johnson.

The project was presented at several international film-industry forums, including Beldocs in Serbia, DocsBarcelona in Spain, Meeting Point Vilnius in Lithuania and the Marché du Film in Cannes, France. At the 10th Meeting Point Vilnius in 2019, the project received the Post Production Award, providing post-production assistance services towards completion of the film, while producer Nazarij Kľujev received an invitation to participate in the Mar…

The film was shot over two months on Carriacou in Grenada. Filming took place directly before hurricane season, which became an element of the film's setting.

Kašová uses an observational approach, filming Johnson at close range and incorporating archive material and images of the island. Cinematographer Martin Jurči's camera remains closely focused on Johnson and his surroundings.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended