ISA, POEG JA PÜHA
TOORUM / FATHER, SON AND HOLY TORUM
Estonia 1997
Director: Mark Soosaar, 90 MIN
Estonian documentary about how the downfall of the Soviet Union changed
the lives of the Khantys, a West-Siberian minority. The irreconcilable
contradictions between old and new are especially strong in the generational
conflict of one family: the father is a shaman, who wants to live at peace
with nature and refuses to put down his bearskin and drum, which represent
the insignia of his shamanic pride. The son, on the other hand, works
for a Russian oil-company that wants to convince the Khantys to sell them
their ancestral land, which the company could exploit for millions of
barrels of oil – destroying all plant and animal-life in the area.
Bellevue-Saal: 08.04. / 8 p.m.
In presence of Mark Soosaar.
Double feature with PAVAROTTI IN ESTONIA / PAVAROTTI IN ESTONIA
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