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Cohabitants (2024)
Directed by Viesturs Kairišs
Documentary · 20m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Viesturs Kairišs
- Writer
- Viesturs Kairišs
- Director of Photography
- Wojciech Staroń, Tomek Pawlik
- Original Music Composer
- Juris Vaivods
- Editor
- Viesturs Kairišs
- Producer
- Esko Rips, Olga Hartšuk, Guntis Trekteris
Details
- Original title
- Eluteelised
- Release date
- 2024-05-04
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ET
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Estonia, Latvia
- Production
- Nafta, Ego Media