The Selkup people live along the Taz River in the Taymyr Peninsula. They are fishermen and hunters. The film documents the nomadic life of Yuri Kalin’s family. Finnish ethnographer Kai Donner, father of director Jrn Donner, who produced this film, described the language and culture of Selkups. His writings, as well as the books by Freud and Jung, and the music by Meredith Monk...
A plunge into the last months of Finland's WWII in all its tired gruesomeness. A fugue of dour, sad, doubt-ridden, sorrow-filled faces, confessions and oratorical detours, an in memoriam of a time and people gone by. A masterpiece of AV oral history.
Finland won the Winter War, and fast. The Continuation War was something else: the fighting went on for more than three years (Ju...