The Winds of the Milky Way
The Winds of the Milky Way (Estonian: Linnutee tuuled) is a documentary film directed by the late President of Estonia Lennart Meri about the life, folklore and traditional culture of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples. Produced in 1977 and released in 1978, it was filmed in Finland, Lapland, the lands of the Vepsians and the Votians, Mordovia, Khanty-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa, Nenetsia, Saaremaa and Muhu.
The film was produced as an international collaboration of the Estonian Tallinnfilm, the Finnish Mainos-TV and Hungary's national broadcasting company Magyar Televízió. It premiered in Tartu on 10 May 1978 and aired in theaters in Helsinki, Uppsala and Tallinn that year. Mainos-TV also aired it on Finnish television on New Year's Eve 1978. The film was preceded by 1970's Vesilinnurahvas and succeeded by 1986's Kaleva hääled. It was remastered in 2009 as part of the Eesti Film 100 project coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Meri's birth.
External links
- Linnutee tuuled at IMDb
- Linnutee tuuled at the Estonian film database
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