The Balance Sheet of Siberia
The year 2011 marked the 70th anniversary of the deportations of June 14 1941, when 15 425 residents of Latvia (Latvians, Jews, Russians, Poles) were deported to Siberia. Among them there were 3 751 children aged up to 1
Found 161 results Back to Home
The year 2011 marked the 70th anniversary of the deportations of June 14 1941, when 15 425 residents of Latvia (Latvians, Jews, Russians, Poles) were deported to Siberia. Among them there were 3 751 children aged up to 1
A story of Augšbebri (Bobrovka) village in Siberia, set up by Latvians at the end of 19th century.
French author Sylvain Tesson pays tribute to the heroes of the Russian Revolution as he crosses the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan, which boasts a multitude of peaks at more than 7,000m. They will have the occasion t
'From Siberia to Moscow' (1876) was August Bournonville’s last long ballet. It was inspired by an 1874 trip to Russia, where Bournonville met Marius Petipa and saw several of his ballets. The music was composed by Carl C
On the shore of the Angara River, two old, lonely people met - a man and a woman. They found their happiness, and would have lived like this until their death, but the great construction project, designed to turn the Han
Documentary comedy. A community of Old Believers settled in the upper reaches of Biryusa. They have fenced themselves off from the world with a wall of alienation. The film crew is trying to break through it. Open Docume
One day in Beijing becomes a guiding thread between the past and the present, where in the silence of traditional streets, among memories and nostalgia. A young girl finds the voice of love, preserved on the back of old
About the life of fishermen on the banks of the great river.
The life and death of New York's most notorious, dirty, and dangerous dive bar.
Eyewitnesses (i.e. former prisoners, idealists, survivors) accounts of their/or others ordeal during the 40's and 50's of the 20th century, being convicted as 'peoples enemies' by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and e
The documentary is dedicated to the history and modernity of the Tyumen region. The main idea of the film is to show Western Siberia as a fundamental part of Russia's power and prosperity through the past, present and fu
Siberia stands as Russia's most abundant macroregion in terms of natural resources, yet paradoxically, it grapples with significant disadvantages. Boasting 88% of the nation's natural gas reserves, only 16.8% of househol
Jesse Collver and Jack Gunter bring you the adventure of a lifetime in this no holds barred true life caper into the wilds of the Mongolian Border to rescue seventeen paintings--trapped behind the Iron Curtain for a quar
Every year on June 14, the Siberian Children Foundation goes on a trip to Siberia to remember their loved ones who stayed there. Along with the trips, they've made documentaries and held conferences. This year marks the
The film tells about the reasons for the prohibition of showing certain Soviet documentaries and how the authors got out of the situation in such cases.
Igarka – a town beyond the Arctic Circle, where Roberts, Andrejs, Nadežda, Anatolijs, and Inta were born in the 1950s. Their parents had been exiled there as children in 1941. Some managed to return to Latvia in 1956, ot
For the first time the event moves north, to the immense Talga forest of Siberia. The yellow Land Rover Discoverys have to battle their way through the final wilderness in the northern hemisphere. One day choking in dust
Documentary movie about life in Yakutia, the coldest inhabited region on Earth with the lowest recorded temperature -71°C (-95°F) and the average winter temperature -50°C (-58°F).