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Northern Travelogues

Northern Travelogues

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 7, 2019

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Pohjankävijäin merkintöjä

Production Companies

Illume

Director

Kira Jääskeläinen

Budget

$251,400

Description

In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to Northeastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey produced a unique documentary film and a travelogue. A hundred years later director Kira Jääskeläinen returns to the Bering Strait in Pälsi's footsteps. Combining old and new film footage, Pälsi's notes and the stories of the local indigenous peoples, the film highlights the story of the Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos from bygone days till today.