Father, Son and Holy Torum (1998)

Father, Son and Holy Torum, by Estonian director Mark Soosaar, recounts a particularly ghastly episode in the history of the "new Russia." The film examines the fate of the Khanty people in western Siberia who have been more or less swindled out of their ancestral lands by Russian oil and gas companies.

Released April 20, 1998 90 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Documentary, Drama

Keywords: imdb.indigenous-people, imdb.culture-clash, imdb.siberia, imdb.western-siberia, imdb.khanty-people, imdb.nomad, imdb.medicine-man + 22 more, imdb.spirituality, imdb.ethnography, imdb.environmental-issue, imdb.tradition, imdb.globalization, imdb.oil-company, imdb.economics, imdb.forest, imdb.old-man, imdb.reindeer-herding, imdb.bear-hunting, imdb.rural-setting, imdb.oil-drilling, imdb.ecology, imdb.livestock, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.husband-wife-relationship, imdb.reenactment, imdb.weasel-man, imdb.shamanism, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.businessman