The Shaman

Shaman was filmed on July the 16th 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia on the Taymyr Peninsula at the Avam river concurrently with the shooting of the documentary The Winds of the Milky Way The Nganasan Shaman Demnime 19131980 was 64 years old at the time The documentary about Demnimes incarnation ritual was completed 20 years later The fifth and final documentary in Lennart Meris Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno Uricarum series