Awards : • Prize for the best ethno historic film at the 1st Festival of
Documentary Films about National Culture “Eurasian
Kaleidoscope” (Moscow, 2005)
• Prize for the best director’s work at the X International
Ecological TV Film Festival “Save and Preserve” (Khanty-
Mansiisk, 2005)
• Grand Prix at the XI International Film Festival on
Environment “Green Vision” (St. Petersburg, 2006)
Plot synopsis
Coast Chukchi is one of the ancient people of the
northeast Siberia. The basis of their life is catching
sea animals. Life history of a Chukchi elder who
denied himself in creature comforts and returned to
the ancestral land , closed and destroyed village
Akkani, is entwined with the story about the ancient
trade. He started a new life on the native coast only
relying upon his own resources.