In 1974, Leonid Brezhnev, the secretary-general of the Communist Party of USSR, called for the Soviet youth to construct the 3500-kilometre-long arterial railway including a city and 200 stations in Baikal-Amur district, Russia (BAM) in order to use the immense amount of mineral resources of the area. Thousands of young people, including Estonians, went to work in Siberia, while believing in Brezhnev's idea. The railway was being constructed simultaneously from both ends and the top event was planned to be when the ends would finally meet. Brezhnev died in 1982 and BAM was not even close to completion. It was ...
Director: Jouni Hiltunen
Main Data
View all| Production Firm(s) | Allfilm, Making Movies (Finland) |
| Film Category | Documentary |
| Text / Dialogue | Estonian, Russian |
| Duration | 72:00 |
Crew
View all| Producer | Kaarle Aho |
| Co-producer | Piret Tibbo-Hudgins |
| Director | Jouni Hiltunen |
| Screenwriter | Jouni Hiltunen |
| Cinematographer | Heikki Tahvo Hirvonen | Jouni Hiltunen |
| Composer | Pessi Levanto |
| Sound Designer | Ivo Felt |
| Editor | Anna Lakanen |
First releases
View all- in cinema: 1.05.2008, Sõprus (Tallinn), Estonia
- on television: 4.2.2009, YLE TV2, Finland
Festivals, awards, nominations
View all- Participation, Visions du Réel International Film Festival (Nyon, Switzerland), 2008
- Participation, Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Germany), 2008
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