Mikhail Bashkirov
Career
Mikhail is an anthropologist and screenwriter. He specialized in the indigenous communities of the North and Siberia and shamanism. Mikhail is the author of dozens of scientific publications and a laureate of the French national program PAUSE.
Filmography
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A Shaman’s Tale suit la quête extraordinaire d’Alexander Gabychev, un chaman Yakoutie, convaincu d’avoir été missioné par Dieu pour libérer le monde du Mal. En 2019, il entreprend de traverser la Russie à pied (8000 kms de Iakoutsk à Moscou) pour exorciser Vladimir Poutine “l’Incarnation du mal”.
A modern-day shaman sets out across Siberia to Moscow on a God-given mission to exorcise the demon in the Kremlin - Vladimir Putin. On his 8000km journey he is gradually joined by others. How will the Russian authorities react? A Shaman’s Tale is a road movie about political repression in modern Russia.
A modern-day shaman sets out across Siberia to Moscow on a God-given mission to exorcise the demon in the Kremlin - Vladimir Putin. On his 8000km journey he is gradually joined by others. How will the Russian authorities react? A Shaman’s Tale is a road movie about political repression in modern Russia.
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2024
75 min