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- Viesturs Kairiss
- Estonia
- 2024
- 20 min
- Russian
- English
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 Piirissaar.
Film crew
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Director:Viesturs Kairiss
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Screenwriter:Viesturs Kairiss
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Cinematographer:Wojciech Staroń PSC, Tomek Pawlik
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Producer:Olga Hartsuk, Esko Rips
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Composer:Juris Vaivods
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Sound operator:Leonid Bragin
Information
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Theme:Lifestyle, Ethnography
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Film studio:Nafta Films OÜ
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Language:Russian
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Subtitles:English
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