Toorumin pojat The Sons of Torum 1989

Title: Sons of Toorum
Original title: Toorumi pojad
Director: Lennart Meri
Screenwriter: Lennart Mer
Operators: Ago Ruus, Rein Pruul
Composer: Erkki-Sven Tüür
Genre: ethnographic, documentary
Production: Eesti Telefilm, IWF (GERMANY), YLE-TV 2 (Finland)
Year: 1989 (shooting: September 1985 and August 1988)
Duration: 60 min.
Premiere: January 13, 1990 (Estonia)

Applying the already established manner of documentary film presentation and taking advantage of publicity and freedom of expression (1989), Lennart Meri, in parallel with the story about the Hunts and their way of life, touches on a topic that, alas, has become even more relevant in our time. Meri seriously investigates the negative social and environmental impacts of the modern oil industry on the indigenous people of the Finno-Ugric peoples of the Russian North and in the territory of their permanent residence.