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Landscape patterns (2014)

Original title: Maastiku mustrid

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Documentary Duration 29:28

The nature documentary filmmakers move through all four seasons and four basic landscape types in Estonia: the swamp, the forest, the coast and the wooded meadow. Everything that appears in front of the camera lens, including people, will become a part of the landscape pattern. People have habitated Estonian territory for more than 10 thousand years. Withdrawal of the ice cap created a habitat that has been adjusted to human needs during thousands of years. Lots of fields, pasture lands and hayfields have been created; the forests have been cut and planted. Unnecessary profit making has been avoided. The variety ...

Director: Riho Västrik

Keywords: changing of seasons | main types of Estonian landscape | bonfire on Midsummer's Eve | hunting dog | hunters | river | cranberries | burning Christmas trees | icicles | celebrating St. George's Night | View all »

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Production Firm(s) Vesilind
Film Category Documentary, Nature
Subtitles Estonian
Duration 29:28

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