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An eternal love story on the frozen plains of Russia told as two friends journey on a wake in the ancient Merjan tradition. Films dealing with Finnish culture are unique. Films dealing with the ancient Finno-Ugric culture are virtually unknown. Films that tell the love story of the Merja people are nonexistent. Until this one. Director Aleksei Fedorchenko and writer Denis Osokin team up to tell a vibrant and touching story of lost love. The story is told within the myths and legends of the ancient Merjan people of Northwest Russia. The Merjans are one of the main groups that went on to populate what is now Finland. Their nation goes back millennia before the modern borders »
- Ron Wilkinson
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