(Veelinnurahvas)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Soviet Union

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

55 minutes

Year:

1970

Directors:

Lennart Meri

Production companies:

Tallinnfilm

Actors:

Narrator (voice)

Crews:

Director

Writer

Editor

Director of Photography