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The Waterfowl People

Not Rated Documentary

Starring: Mikk Mikiver

Writer: Lennart Meri

Release Date:
January 1, 1970
Ratings:
7.0 / 10
Director:
Lennart Meri
Companies:
Tallinnfilm

Overview

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.