A unique ethnographic expedition “Burlatsky on the Volga. Roads of Maxim Dmitriev” in Kazan

The film crew will pass from the source to the mouth of the Volga along the route of the famous photographer Maxim Dmitriev and will shoot a documentary about the life people.

On July 10, a unique ethnographic expedition “Burlatsky on the Volga. Roads of Maxim Dmitriev” will arrive in Kazan under the auspices of the Russian Geographical Society.

Photographer and member of the RGS Misha Burlatsky, together with assistants and a film crew of a filmmaker Alexandra Andronova, will pass from the source to the mouth of the Volga along the route of the famous photographer Maxim Dmitriev from Nizhny Novgorod. The task of the film crew is to capture the natives of the Volga region and make a documentary about it. The shooting will take place for three days in Kazan and one day - on the island of Sviyazhsk with the support of the “Cinema Time” directorate.

On July 14, as part of the “Cinema Time at the Lake Kaban” project and the “KinoSreda” project, a meeting with the film expedition team will take place on the embankment of the Lake Kaban. The guests will answer questions from the audience and talk about the difficult, but very exciting shooting process. In addition, the audience will be presented with a documentary film by Marina Razbezhkina “Optical Axis”, also telling about Maxim Dmitriev. Admission to the film screening and creative meeting is free.

The expedition started on June 24 in St. Petersburg. In a month and a half, the team overcomes more than 4,500 kilometers by land and water on the territory of ten regions of the Volga region from the Tver to the Astrakhan region. From the source of the Volga to Nizhny Novgorod, the expedition will move in a specially equipped mobile laboratory. From Nizhny Novgorod to Kazan-on the ship “Volga”. The start of the ship stage took place on July 5 from the Nizhny Novgorod river port. From Kazan to Astrakhan-again on a mobile laboratory.

Photo exhibitions and presentations of the film will be held in autumn 2021 at the headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod, in the exhibition venue of the Volga Shipping Company. Then the documentary will be handed over to Russian distributors for festival promotion and film distribution. The project authors will mark the opening of the exhibition and the premiere of the documentary film to coincide with the 800^th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod and the 175^th anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society, Press Office of “Vremya Kino” Directorate reports.