Save the Desert

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Documentary

Overview

Saving the desert from being watered (to grow cotton) with water containing pesticides and other chemicals and that end up killing sheep, camels and other animals of the desert. And yet, ‘Turkmen without the desert is dead,’ says a shepherd. The desert saved the Turkmen people who could hide in the desert from attacking tribes. Portraits of old men and the message that saving the desert is to save the nation.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: April 7, 1988
Original language: Turkmen
Spoken languages: Russian, Turkmen
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Turkmenfilm
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded