Movie·1970·0h 55m
The Waterfowl People
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Estonian
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The Story
Original title: Veelinnurahvas
A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari, and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The footage was shot in Altai Krai, the Nenets Okrug, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari el, Karelia, and Estonia. The first documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum (1970 - 1997)" series.
Cinematography
Sergo Rahomägi
Editor
Maire Lutter
Themes
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Audience Score
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Cast
Mikk Mikiver
Narrator (voice)
// crew
Crew
Lennart Meri
Director, Writer
Maire Lutter
Editor
Sergo Rahomägi
Director of Photography
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