Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri´s Film Journeys
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Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri´s Film Journeys
2010-01-02T12:00:00Z
Lennart Meri (1929–2006), a writer and a filmmaker, was elected twice the President of the Republic of Estonia, in 1992-2001. Over the course of 25 years Lennart Meri’s life and creative works were closely linked with Estonian film production. „Dances for the Milky Way” follows Lennart Meri's film quests since 1964 when he was invited to work as an script editor for Tallinnfilm, where he would quite soon become the key person for planning Estonian-Finnish film co-operation. „Dances for the Milky Way“ details the stories of the makings of Lennart Meri's anthropological documentaries on Finno-Ugric peoples, such as „The Waterfowl People“ (1970), „The Winds of the Milky Way” (1977), “The Sounds of Kaleva” (1986), “The Sons of Torum” (1989) and „The Shaman“ (1997).