The Waterfowl People
1970, Estonian. Directed by Lennart Meri.
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.
- Runtime
- 0h 55m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Estonian
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- Released
- 1 January 1970
- Original title
- Veelinnurahvas
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Lennart Meri
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The Waterfowl People (1970) was directed by Lennart Meri and stars Mikk Mikiver.