A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
May 4, 2024
Original Title:
Eluteelised
Alternate Titles:
Metsik lõuna: Eluteelised
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Ego Media
Nafta
Production Countries:
Estonia
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 20
Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian island in Lake Peipus, on the very border of Russia. The Russian Old Believers who inhabited the island appeared here 300 years ago, during the Great Northern War, fleeing from the religious reforms in the Orthodox Church and to avoid being mobilized in the Russian army. As the waves have washed the island smaller and smaller, the community here has also fused over time, inevitably reaching the brink of extinction. However, the local culture and sense of life that developed in isolation from the rest of the “Russian world” has not yet completely disappeared from Piiriissaar.
Director:
Viesturs Kairišs
Director of Photography:
Wojciech Staroń
Tomek Pawlik
Editor:
Viesturs Kairišs
Producer:
Esko Rips
Olga Hartšuk
Guntis Trekteris
Sound:
Mart Kessel-Otsa
Gert Mäll
Writer:
Viesturs Kairišs
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