The film shows the complexity and drama of life of indigenous peoples of Siberia – the Khanty, Mansi, Nenets – in touch with the world of “white people”. Violence, unwillingness to reckon with the peculiarities of the centuries-old culture, way of life, peculiarities of psychology distinguished Soviet officials when dealing with small nationalities of the far North. The film involved Lev Gumilev.
Gumilev L.N. (synchronously).
Shaman kamlaet.
Snowmobiles ride on the tundra.
Snowmobiles drive up to a small hut of the Hunts.
The hosts treat the guests.
Chronicle: Khanty for harvesting skins, a running herd of deer.
Deer trapping.
Shooting from a helicopter.
An island on a frozen lake.
A village on the shore of a lake.
The Khanty make an ice hole, catch fish.
A woman is sewing something.
Paintings by the artist A.Tebetev (everyday scenes of the life of the indigenous peoples of the North).
A lesson at school.
Children cut figures out of paper.
Chronicle: the life of the peoples of the North under Soviet rule (school, construction plague, reindeer sled).
The plane is flying over a frozen lake.
Village.
The sanctuary.
Shaman.
Chronicle: reindeer herders' camp.
Fish processing plant.
Canned fish.
Psychiatric hospital.
Doctor (synchronously).
A snowmobile rides through the village.
Manual squirrel.
A woman butchering a fish.
Chronicle: a fire at a gas well.
Landscape.
Village.
Key words
Ethnography
Personnel:
Gumilev L.N. -uchyonij, pisatelj i perevodchik. Arheolog, vostokoved i geograf, istorik, etnolog, filosof. Sozdatelj passionarnoj teorii etnogeneza.
Calendar: 1930-1932
Locations: Siberia [926]
Seasons: Winter [823]