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IT’S always intriguing to see how cinema acts as a barometer of the times and perhaps not surprising that two of the most awaited films among the 16 in competition at the Moscow International Film Festival were Russian.
Vladimir Turmayev’s White Yegel, set in the the icy, treeless wastes of the tundra, tells the story of Aloshka. He’s a young man of the Nenets people, an ethnic minority in Siberia.
He lives with his mother and, despite his love for his ex-girlfriend who left their homeland to study, he is forced by his parent to marry. Yet every day Alyoshka checks the road, hopelessly waiting for his love to return.
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