The Waterfowl People 1972 Directed by Lennart Meri Veelinnurahvas

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.

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Estonian
Spoken Language Estonian
Gnere Documentary
Production Company Tallinnfilm
Release Date 19 October 1972
55 mins
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Mikk Mikiver Narrator (voice)
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