Film

Gugara

2008 · 24m · Documentary

IMDb

6.9

Gugara in Evenky language stands for the sound of the bell hanging from a reindeer neck. It's one of the few sounds you could hear in taiga, but recently there's almost nothing but silence. Within the last few weeks, Dimitri and Tatiana, elderly herdsmen, have lost their entire herd. What to do in taiga without it? Especially if you are very last herdsmen in the area. Everybody else already has left life in the forest for the nearby Russian village. This is the story of the decline of a small Siberian community. This observational documentary describes the paradoxical world of former nomads and reindeer herdsman that were forced to abandon their ancient life-ways. Characters of the film are on the different stages of forsaking world which was known us traditional way of life.

• Jacek NagłowskiDirector
• Andrzej DybczakDirector
• Agnieszka JanowskaProducer

Release date

July 22, 2008

Status

Released

Original language

Polish

Runtime

24m

Genres

Documentary