The “Baltic sun” is shot as a character itself: overexposed, hazy, often filtered through polluted haze from the Gulf of Finland. The color palette is sickly yellow-white, not golden. The director (likely Russian-born, Swedish-resident filmmaker Lena T. Andersson) uses long, almost static takes—an homage to Tarkovsky and Sokurov.
This footage—if it exists—is a historical artifact. It shows St. Petersburg before the mass proliferation of digital signage, before the renovation of Gostiny Dvor, and before the political tensions of the 2010s. baltic sun at st petersburg 2003 documentary portable