Summary In order to please the spirits of the Mongolian steppe, it takes dance and singing, the magic drum and lots of smoke. "Burne", a 70-year-old blind woman, depends on the goodwill of the spirits. She needs her spiritual strength to help other people. Burne is a shaman. The woman with the leather-tanned skin is the eldest of the "Zaatan", a nomadic people in the extreme north of Mongolia. They are reindeer herders who have been wandering through the taiga on the border to Siberia for centuries. It is winter, cutting cold - minus 25 degrees Celsius on average - and the Chuwsgul Lake is frozen to a metre thick. The mountain valleys around the fourteenth largest fresh water reservoir in the world in the far north of Mongolia are home to the last "Zaatan" - just 300 people - and are considered the last refuge of shamanism alongside Siberia and Amazonia. Here, in the uncontrollable vastness of the Mongolian highlands, the animistic belief in nature has survived 70 years of Soviet communism. GO EAST accompanies the "Zaatan" on their hike through the icy tundra of mountain valleys in the far north of Mongolia and looks behind the myth of the shamanistic natural healers of the last steppe nomads.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Richard Gere The Dalai Lama
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/414839
Language : German
Production companies : Martin Thoma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Haberci Productions
Summary In order to please the spirits of the Mongolian steppe, it takes dance and singing, the magic drum and lots of smoke. "Burne", a 70-year-old blind woman, depends on the goodwill of the spirits. She needs her spiritual strength to help other people. Burne is a shaman. The woman with the leather-tanned skin is the eldest of the "Zaatan", a nomadic people in the extreme north of Mongolia. They are reindeer herders who have been wandering through the taiga on the border to Siberia for centuries. It is winter, cutting cold - minus 25 degrees Celsius on average - and the Chuwsgul Lake is frozen to a metre thick. The mountain valleys around the fourteenth largest fresh water reservoir in the world in the far north of Mongolia are home to the last "Zaatan" - just 300 people - and are considered the last refuge of shamanism alongside Siberia and Amazonia. Here, in the uncontrollable vastness of the Mongolian highlands, the animistic belief in nature has survived 70 years of Soviet communism. GO EAST accompanies the "Zaatan" on their hike through the icy tundra of mountain valleys in the far north of Mongolia and looks behind the myth of the shamanistic natural healers of the last steppe nomads.
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/414839
Language : German
Production companies : Martin Thoma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Haberci Productions
