The Waterfowl People

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1970

Original language

English

Production

Tallinnfilm

Cast

Mikk Mikiver

Director

Lennart Meri

Writer

Lennart Meri

Cinematography

Sergo Rahomägi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt2637876