Russia

52', 2019

DIRECTED BY

Ivan Golovnev

PRODUCED BY

Ivan Golovnev

SCRIPTWRITER

Ivan Golovnev

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Dmitry Adukanov

EDITED BY

Ivan Golovnev

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The Tungus tribes came to Kamchatka from Eastern Siberia about two centuries ago. Initially these taiga and tundra wanderers used the reindeer as a means of transport, a "saddle animal". That's why they got their characteristic nickname – the "reindeer riders". And since then the reindeer people have been migrating with their herds along the same route – a track, the outlines of which bear resemblance to the contours of a human body. The film is based on the archive records of the Soviet time reindeer herders' team leader and the video-diary of a modern herder describing the cultural traditions and innovations of the Kamchatka Evens – an ethnic minority people living in the Far East of Russia.

Ivan Golovnev graduated from the Omsk State University, History department. Finished college at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio in Ekaterinburg and the Highest Courses of Film Writers and Directors in Moscow. He has a PhD in Visual Anthropology.