The Presidential Library will show and discuss the “The Land of People” documentary dedicated to the history and current days of the Kuril Islands

Over the course of the “World of Knowledge” International Festival, at the next in turn meeting of the Presidential Library Cinema Club, on October 19, 2017, at 3 pm, spectators will watch and discuss “The Land of People” documentary by Dmitry Semibratov, dedicated to the history of discovery of the Kuril Islands and the lives of inhabiting them ethnic groups.

“The Land of People” is a large-scale research and adventure driven film that allows to re-open once again the Kuriles for Russia and to show to the rest of world a distinct territory of the islands with their matchless human and natural wealth. The name of the island was received in the language of the tribe, originally inhabiting there. Aina is an amazing, but the lost and forgotten people. “Kuru” meant “man” in these people’s language. “Kuru-mishi” — “land of people, people’s land.” Ainu significantly differed with their appearance and customs from both the Japanese in the south and from the Kamchadales in the north.

Repeating the route of the first colonists, the authors of the film begin unhurried acquaintance of the audience with the current inhabitants of the Kuriles — people of exotic professions and outstanding characters, tough and spirited. They live in places far from modern civilization, on different islands of the Kuril chain, where there is no Internet, no cellular communication, nor other habitual for the population of the continent means of everyday life. But this does not bring any dissonance into their being…

Filmmakers group of Dmitry Semibratov lived with geologists for a month in the conditions of limited supply of provisions, a clothes is wet all the time, hungry bears are everywhere around — but there is no connection, and there will take four days to get the nearest settlements. During the expedition, the documentary creators have survived some of the ordeals that befell on the discoverers of the Kuriles.

The screening in the cinema club will take place in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library at 3 Senate Square, St. Petersburg, RF 190000.

Please confirm your presence over the phone +7 (812) 305 1635, + 7 (921) 594 1613 or emailing Elena Viktorovna Smolina at smolina@prlib.ru.

An accreditation of media representatives is open until 2 pm on October 18, 2017.

Please, submit your applications for accreditation in the attached form with the “Media accreditation” note in subject line to Maria Perestoronina media@prlib.ru, perestoronina@prlib.ru, Press Service of the Presidential Library, phone +7 (812) 305 1621 (ext. 781), mobile: +7 (921) 099-97-52.

Your application on the attached form must specify a media name, a full name of media representative, a date and a place of the representative’s birth, full passport or picture id details (series, number, when and by what body it was issued, place of residence), a carry-on equipment (including notebooks and tablet computers), and the contact phone numbers.

Please be advised, that the event participants and guests enter the Presidential Library through the entrance № 1, and the media representatives — through the entrance № 2 by appointment only and without any exceptions upon presentment of passport or picture id.