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Karelia, International with Monument

Karelia, International with Monument

90 min

Russian

7
Artdoc rating

First part of a diptych dedicated to Karelia, a border region between Finland and Russia, and the homeland of the Karelians. Duque‘s essayist narrative portrays moments where the real and the fantastic of a culture come into conflict, “a hallucinated history of Karelia where different layers of time converge”. Karelia - which has belonged to Sweden, the Republic of Novgorod, Finland and Russia - is a region of contrasts due to its border dimension, cradle of Finnish literature and memory space of the wars and repressive policies of the last century. A family from a remote village preserves the vestiges of their ancestral and shamanic-culture; on the other side, the testimony of the daughter of a historian currently in prison. Both stories reflect and criticises Putin’s current actions to rewrite the history of Russia.

Film crew

Director
Andrés Duque
Screen writer
Andrés Duque
Operator
Andrés Duque
Producer
Andrés Duque
Sound producer
Andrés Duque

MOVIE ABOUT

Theme
Nature, Ethnography
Country
Spain
Film studio
Andrés Duque
Festivals
Artdocfest 2019
Languages
Russian

Tags

этнография
Карелия
традиции