Varkled Bodya 2012)
VarkledBodya is a documentary fairy tale, a film about a far Udmurt village in Russia, whose inhabitants worship the ancient pagan gods Inmar, Lud, MuKylchin. They pray deep in the forest; they feed their gods with bread and butter; they hang the animal s sculls on the trees. Their Great Temple is a small wooden house with no windows; it stays in the village for centuries. VarkledBodya is the last place in the world where this ancient FinnoUgric religion is kept unchanged till nowadays. VarkledBodya is a direct cinema project with no narration or talking heads just a pure reality with short subtitles in Robert Flaherty s style. The shooting of this film lasted for more than a year. It is a deep dive into the parallel reality where the trees can talk and the earth stands on the horns of the black bull.
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