The Waterfowl People

The Waterfowl People

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 19, 1972

Runtime

0h 55m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Veelinnurahvas

Production Companies

Tallinnfilm

Director

Lennart Meri

Description

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.