Movielogr
Russian Gas and the Nenets (2023)
Directed by Sergio Ghizzardi
Overview
In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia’s energy hyperpower, which caused the appetite of oil corporations. But the Yamal peninsula is also the ancestral home of the Nenets, who have been pasturing here with their droves for over 200 generations. Every year the nomads undertake a journey of 1500 km. But for how much longer can they survive? Today in Yamal, pastures have given way to gas fields. Growing towns, a railway, an airport, the deep scars on the landscape caused by extraction of gas and oil, and the new nuclear-powered icebreakers, which will create busy shipping lanes in the Arctic, are all changing the local ecosystem. With the industry dramatically modifying the landscape, accelerating the effects of global warming, the Nenets way of life is under threat. The documentary gives a unique insight into a vanishing way of life, enhanced by stunning aerial footage, and rare access to an extraordinary people.
Length 75 minutes
Actors
Florian Stammler | Julienne Stroeve | Alexandra Terekhina | Vassily Serotetto | Alik Serotetto | Galina Serotetto | Olga Serotetto | Tolik Serotetto | Myadme Khudi | Myangche Khudi | Valerii Khudi | Nelya Leonidovna | Aleksander Aliseevic | Vyacheslav Ruksha | Nikolay Monko | Mikhail Grigoriev | Alexei Taragupta | Vadim Petrenko | Alexey Kontorovich | Vladimir Putin