The Waterfowl People

10/19/1972

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0hr 55min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Mikk Mikiver

    Director

  • Lennart Meri

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Tallinnfilm

    Production Countries

  • Estonia
  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • Estonian