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Bride of the Seventh Heaven
(2003, 85 min.) FINLAND/RUSSIA
Director: Anastasia Lapsui (Nenets) and Markku Lehmuskallio
Actors: Angelina Saraleta (Nenets), Viktoria Hudi (Nenet), Ljuba
Filipova (Nenets), Jevgeni Hudi (Nenets), and Gennadi Puikko (Nenets)
Filmed in the indigenous homeland of the Nenets of northwest
Siberia, A Bride of the Seventh Heaven is a tale of a woman
set apart from her people by her betrothal to Num, the high god
of the Nenets. The old woman's life unfolds in flashbacks that
transport viewers to the traditional Nenets world. The director
based her film on an elder's story heard during her childhood
in the stark and beautiful lands of the Yamal peninsula.
Image credit: Both A Bride
of the Seventh Heaven
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