There is a point in
director Akira Kurosawa’s Oscar-winning Dersu Uzala where you realize that he
has taken his camera, his cast and his crew to a place that is so remote that
if you step one foot in any direction you would be heading back to
civilization.
Do people really exist
out there, in Siberia, or was Kurosawa simply telling us a story and this
godforsaken place just happened to be the location he selected to shoot his
film?
The answer to that
question is: YES. Yes, people do live
(or, is it exist?) out there and Russian documentary filmmaker Aleksei
Vakhrushev took two years out of his life to film the existence of Vukvukai and
his remote community in the documentary titled The Tundra Book: A Tale of
Vukvukai, the Little Rock.
Vukvukai, the tribal
elder and herdsman, could be a character right out of Kurosawa’s Dersu
Uzala … he lives in a place on earth where time has literally stood
still. Survival is everything …
Vakhrushev’s insightful look at this truly alien world will be available on DVD
from Virgil Films & Entertainment on Mar. 18.
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