"Both episodes were stunningly filmed by John Murray and Ross Bartley
and Somer's respect for the hardy Nenets shone through (...)
It was as fine a documentary film as you're likely to see; visually stunning,
interrogative, in sympathy with its human and animal subjects. A perfect
example of the quality of material being shown on TG4."

Emmanuel Kehoe, The Sunday Business Post

"Open & sensitive, richly textured, beautifully photographed, original
& unique frame of reference on the life & thought-world of the Nenets
tribe of Siberia. Spellbinding compelling & undoubtedly
compulsive documentary of quality."

Celtic Film Festival Jury

Travelling by reindeer sled with a family of nomads, this film heads deep into Northern Siberia on the greatest traditional journey left on earth.

Filmed by John Murray and Ross Bartley, over a four month period in Siberia, this documentary is an intimate portrayal of a unique journey and a way of life unchanged for centuries.

Every year, an irrepressible bunch of Siberian natives, the Nenets, travel by reindeer from their winter forest homes, 800 kms north to the Arctic Ocean and back. The journey is the last of its kind. Possessing the most intact culture left in the Arctic, the Nenets live in tents of reindeer skin, eat raw reindeer meat and travel on handmade wooden sleds.

The film follows brothers, Sergei and Sasha and their families, as they set off in temperatures of minus 30ºC travelling north towards the Arctic Ocean. We return in mid summer to pick up the story and film the end of the journey as the Nenets reach the sea.

Irish version presented by Dermot Somers
Filmed by Ross Bartley and John Murray
Directed and Produced by John Murray

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Nenets related link - www.suri.ee/r/nenets/index.html