Director:  Zdeněk N. Bričkovský

Category: Discoveries / Nature / Ethnology

Production: Zdeněk N. Bričkovský: DÓM Film / Czech Republic 2006

Language: Russian, Czech

Subtitles: English

Length: 69 minutes

The film introduces the less known area of tundra and its civilization, with everything what this reality brings up. Vorga is the Nenets’ sacred trail, which the herdsmen have used for centuries to move their herds across tundra, all the way to the Barents Sea shore. ”Vorga” looks at an original nomadic life deep in the tundra of the European Nenets.
Contemporary Nenets are different… they live in villages, they do not want to or cannot be nomads anymore. The traditional nomadic culture has almost merged with the Russian culture, a nomadic Nenet is disappearing… The oil refineries quickly take up the vast areas of tundra, parts of the sacred trail are damaged by trucks. Yet there still exists the original nomadic life at the end of VORGA, deep in the tundra! Silence and Peace. Rustle of the sea and noise of the wind. Slow time flows and limitless freedom! But only until the helicopter comes… A documentary about searching for the Path of two banks – for a civilization and tradition, the outer-materialist and the inner-spiritual, for what disappears and what stays forever.