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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Arvo Iho
Script :
Rustam Ibragimbekov, Nikolai Baturin, Arvo Iho, Arvo Valton. D'apr�s le roman de / Based on the nove
Photography :
Rein Kotov
Editor :
Sirje Haagel, Arvo Iho
Cast :
Rain Simmul, Dinara Drukarova, Ilyana Pavlova, K�lli Teetamm, Merle Palmiste, Galina Bokashevskaya, Tatiana Legantyeva, Arvo Kukum�gi, Lemblt Ulfsak, Nail Chaikhotdinov, Farhatdin Makhamatdinov
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THE HEART OF THE BEAR
A young Estonian, Nika, goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilization. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second is a wild and untameable native who becomes his mythical bear-woman. When he accidentally kills a great black bear, his own shadow-creature, he is burdened with guilt. However, he is given a chance of finding an inner equilibrium. He must make choices, not just between the women in his life but between different roads in life. He is ready to forget the village and its people, but he is just a man. He cannot deny his nature."My task in adapting Nikolai Baturin's best-selling novel, was to make the story engrossing and multi-faceted. This is a romantic drama about a man in the extreme conditions of Siberia's forests, but it is also a mythological story and I needed to make this aspect understandable to viewers whose world differs from the world of Siberian forest tribes." -- Arvo Iho
Arvo Iho
Born in Rakvere, Estonia in 1949, Arvo Iho studied film in Moscow and anthropology in the United States. In 1992 he founded and became first head of the film and video department at the Tallinn Pedagogical University in Estonia. Since 1986 he has directed over thirty films of various lengths and formats, and his work has earned him 19 international awards. Selected filmography: THE BIRDWATCHER (1986), THE PEACEBROKER (1987), CHRISTMAS PICTURE, THE SONGS OF MILAREPA (1988), THE CHRONICLE OF SIRENIKI (1990), CHILDREN OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE (1992), A DAY IN TUGIJAN, MIDSUMMER IN INGRIA (1995), WINTER IN LAPLAND (1996).
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