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Miron Alekseevich, director of a paper and pulp mill, goes to bury his wife Tanya in the place where they once spent their honeymoon. He goes not alone, but with a photographer named Stork, to whom he tells touching details of his life with Tanya. The narrative weaves together the memories of the characters, as well as the rituals and beliefs of the Meri people, a small Finnish tribe that once lived in the Northern Volga region and dissolved among the Russians.
general audience, movie lovers
river, dead body, chubby woman, typewriter, ancient culture, love for wife
Russia
asTanya
asAist
asVesa
asMiron
asBird Seller
asAist's Mother
asYoung Aist
asRimma
asYuliya
asInspector
asShop Assistant
asElectrician
asZoya
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