Lennart MERI
Леннарт МЕРИ
Lennart MERI
USSR (Estonia), 1973, 55mn 
documentary
The Waterfowl People
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Народ водоплавающей птицы

 

 Le Peuple de l'oiseau aquatique

 Narod vodoplavayushchey ptitsy

Other titles : Veelinnurahvas
 
Directed by : Lennart MERI (Леннарт МЕРИ)
Writing credits : Lennart MERI (Леннарт МЕРИ)
Production : Filmistuudio Tallinnfilm
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
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 50 years ago. 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”
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Baltic Soviet films, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026