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Vorga - A Path of Two Banks
Vorga - Cesta mezi břehy
Zdeněk N. Bričkovský / Czech Republic / 2006 / 69 min.
In the second part of his four-part documentary series about the inhabitants of the Republic of Komi, Zdeněk N. Bričkovský returns to northern Russia to spend time with the nomadic Nenets people, who follow a herd of reindeer for their livelihood. Nothing but an oil-company helicopter appears every once in a while over this desolate land. In this way, a journey begins to get to know a traditional, disappearing world on a route that runs between modernity and tradition. This lyrical documentary is placed in a poetic framework. Lyrical panoramas of the landscape are accompanied by the rustling of the wind and a traditional musical score. Self-layered images in combination with the naive paintings of a local amateur artist, folk legends and rituals bring the viewer to a point where the past and the present merge in the centre of a magical world, which is so different from contemporary life.
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