Great Siberian Rivers: Biryusa

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Great Siberian Rivers: Biryusa

This is a documentary comedy. A community of old believers has settled down in the upper Biryusa area. They are shut out from the rest of the world by a solid wall of alienation. The film crew tries to break through this wall and encounters many whacky and extraordinary locals along the way.

Pavel Fattakhutdinov

Born in 1952 in Yekaterinburg, Pavel Fattakhutdinov graduated from the Ural State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1974. He passed High directing courses in renowned Russian film director Gleb Panfilov’s workshop in 1980.

Filmography
Alone and Unarmed, 1984
Summer Occurrence, 1986 (TV)
The Chocolate Riot, 1990
Lisa, 2005
The Twentieth Summer, 2008
Great Siberian Rivers: Lena, 2013
Tough Case, 2013
Great Siberian Rivers: Baryusa, 2014

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Film Details:

Russia, 2014, 29’
in Russian w/ Eng. subtitles

Director: Pavel Fattakhutdinov
Screenwriters: Pavel Fattakhutdinov, Svetlana Bobrova
Producer: Irina Snezhinskaya
Cinematographer: Anatoly Alexeev
Editor: Svetlana Bobrova
Sound: Nadezhda Shestakova, Eugeny Chemakin
Production Company: SNEGA