River Out of Time: A Journey Through Tanu Tuva

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River Out of Time: A Journey Through Tanu Tuva

48 min 11 sec

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  A travel film blending ethnography and adventure in Soviet Asia by filmmaker John Knoop.
  
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  We’ve reached the region of Orthodox fundamentalists known as Old Believers. We stop to visit an old woman who has lived alone since her sister died, miles from her nearest neighbor, raising sheep and cattle; fishing and gardening. Only occasional help from the world of men. She shows us some bronze icons that she says tarnished overnight when her sister died. She recites from a huge book of religious texts printed in old Russian, squinting through broken eyeglasses and falling into a trancelike state as she reads. As we are leaving she plaintively asks Lena, one of the teachers from Moscow, if she would consider staying with her. Lena quietly and sweetly says that she can’t.

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Related Links

• John Knoop's Website
• John Knoop Filmography
• John Knoop on IMDb
• Wikipedia Article on Tuva