A drop of Kalmyk blood (1988)

Grasses in the steppe, on the ground lay a statue of Buddha.

Panorama of the village.

View Buddhist temple, behind the scenes is the story of a local resident about the history of the temple and its closure in the years of Soviet power, the Kalmyk division, the expulsion of the Kalmyks to Siberia (synchronously).

Fragments of the buildings of the temple filled with boards Windows, crumbling plaster.

Interior views of the temple.

A local resident stands in the doorway.

Types of temple walls with crumbling plaster, the top of the temple.

Face of a local pensioner, standing in front of the temple.

Newsreel: views of the Buddhist temple, the Kalmyks perform the ritual with the bypass Church in 1920-ies.

Procession of Buddhist monks and locals.

The Statue Of Buddha.

Winter landscape, a man walks through the depression.

Newsreel: the symbolic distribution of water, the man with the exaltation of people pouring from the kettle.

Panorama Yurt in the steppe.

An elderly Kalmyk smokes a pipe.

The girl's face in the national Kalmyk attire.

Cooking in a cauldron over fire.

Kalmyks with horses at the Yurt.

Woman milking a Mare.

Young Kalmyk dancing in front of the neighbors, the national dance, girl riding, leads the camel.

Setting the tent in the desert.

View of the monument in the desert.

The Poet D. Kugultinov N. looking at the monument.

Yellow maple leaves on the stove at the monument.

Yurts installed at the stadium.

Installation next tent at the stadium in Elista, on the ground are parts of the frame and covering the Yurt.

Partly mounted to the frame of the Yurt.

Unloading folded coverings for the tents from the truck.

Woman rubs the door to the Yurt.

Artist folk ensemble suggests that established the Yurt is not like a real point out errors in the installation (synchronously).

Teenagers listen to artists.

One of the older artists speaks of a partial loss of the Kalmyk people of the national culture and language because of the deportations, the reluctance grandchildren to learn the native language, tells of the deportation and the way to Siberia (synchronously).

The participants of the festival at the stadium preparing for the show.

View of the square in Elista, the horse in the square.

The riderless horse runs along the Board of honor, nibbling grass on the lawn.

The horse on the ground near the Eternal flame at the memorial of military glory.

The horse goes past the glass storefront.

Panorama Windows, a lock on the door of the store.

A horse on a city street.

The horse runs on the track of the city Park.

A man recalls how did the deportation of the Kalmyks in 1943 (synchronously).

Landscape at sunset.

Retired Markin talks about his impressions of the deportation of the Kalmyks in 1943 (synchronously).

The small cemetery in the desert near the road, graves with fences.

Photos of the Kalmyks, who served in the Kalmyk SS Legion.

Painting a search in the Kalmyk family.

An elderly woman recalls her deportation to Siberia (synchronously).

Historian and ethnographer Avleev G. O. talks about the deportation of his family, the way to Siberia and their children's experiences (synchronously).

View the Kalmyk steppe at sunset from the window of a moving car.

The painting depicts one of the episodes of the deportation of the Kalmyks.

An elderly woman talks about the deportation and deaths in the path of the people, the conditions in which people went to Siberia (synchronously).

Types of autumn mixed forest from the window of the car.

Actor Mucuraev S. G. tells us about the attitude of the soldiers of the escort to the deported Kalmyks, about difficult conditions in the way, about frozen on the way the man (synchronously).

Fragments of paintings, depicting one of the moments deportation of the Kalmyks.

Face Painter Aldaeva K. M.

Aldaev in his Studio talks about the deportation of the Kalmyks, a large number of deaths on the road (synchronously), fragments of paintings Aldaeva, on the subject of deportation of the Kalmyk people.

View of grassy railway.

Rotten piles on the shore.

Older people tell about the way to Siberia in the supply trucks, cars, relatives and friends, returned and not returned from Siberia, about growing up after returning children and grandchildren (synchronously).

The landscape along the railroad tracks, the types of the autumn forest.

View of the village in winter.

View of the village in winter.

The man remembers about deportation to Siberia, about the reasons for the expulsion (synchronously).

Wooden houses and huts in which lived the exiled Kalmyks.

The man remembers about the initial bias against the local Russian population to the exiles, disbanded the rumors about the Kalmyks (synchronously).

The forest outside of the car.

Siberian landscape.

Panorama and types of the Siberian village, behind the scenes is the story of the life of the Kalmyks deported to Siberia, the high mortality rate from starvation (synchronously).

Fragments of paintings Aldaeva.

The grave cross in the woods.

Rowan branches covered with snow.

An elderly cleaning lady with a MOP bucket along the corridor.

The cleaning lady says about the persons who directly carried out the deportation of the fault in the excesses committed against the expelled (synchronously).

A certificate of rehabilitation and diplomas cleaners.

A pile of firewood behind a Board fence.

Avleev speaks to the lack of mention of Kalmyks in school history textbooks, the attitude of school teachers (synchronously).

A man tells about his childhood and adolescence, held in Siberia, about his childhood friends, about the constant desire to return home (synchronously).

Steppe landscape at sunset, a lone tree in the desert.

Grazing horse.

View of one of the streets the morning of Elista.

Panorama and views of an abandoned shepherd's point.

Destroyed buildings on shepherd's point.

An elderly woman wipes her tears, tells about his life, the deceased relatives in Siberia (synchronously).

Calmac-a war veteran tells of his fate after discharge from the hospital in 1943, bringing the Kalmyks, withdrawn from the front in the construction in the Perm region (synchronous).

Photos and book about the construction of Shirokovskaya hydroelectric power plant on the windowsill.

The types Shirokovskaya hydroelectric station, the monument to the heroes of the great Patriotic war.

The elderly man gives interviews (synchronously).

Fragment Aldaeva depicting prisoners in the camp of the Kalmyks.

An elderly man tells about the fate and life exiled to Siberia Kalmyks, veterans, their frequent death from malnutrition, the burial of the dead (synchronously).

A pile of firewood behind the fence at the train station.

Retired Lukyanova indignant about the unfair deportation of the Kalmyk people (synchronously).

Photographs of soldiers and officers of the Kalmyk Legion, Newspapers published the Kalmyk national Committee, photocopies of newspaper articles with references to Hitler.

Panorama of the steppe river at sunset.

The old camp cemetery in Siberia.

Bunches of Rowan berries on the branches.

The man expresses his gratitude to the inhabitants of Siberia for the warm welcome and kindness to exiled the Kalmyks, the people who believe in the legitimacy of the deportation of the Kalmyk people (synchronously).

The statue of Buddha in the steppe grass.

A fragment of one of the paintings Aldaeva.

The janitor sweeping leaves in the Park the evening after sunset.

Panorama of the Elista (above).

Woman washes plate of the granite pedestal of the Lenin monument, type of monument.

The monument to O. gorodovikova in Elista, on the pedestal of the monument sits a boy.

The horse in the stable.

The bell on the balcony of the living pulp.

Jump at the Elista racetrack before the holiday.

War veterans sitting in the stands of the Hippodrome.

Panorama of one of the half-empty stands.

The Statue Of Buddha.

Buddha statues with price tags in the gift shop of the Museum.

People crossing the street, the transition is a policeman.

One of the pensioners talking about their lives and about the indifference to some of her parties (synchronously).

cars passing on the street.

View of Lenin square (above).

The man says about the fear of a repetition of the events of 1943 (synchronously).

Views of the stadium during the preparation for the holiday.

Artist folk ensemble, sitting on the stadium, singing a song in the Kalmyk language.

View the Kalmyk steppe.

Earthmoving equipment in the construction of an irrigation canal.

Eagle on the sand dune.

Newsreel of the 1920-ies: faces of adults and children living in the desert, alternates with footage of the construction of an irrigation canal and operate excavation equipment.

View of part of the desert is covered with sand.

A dilapidated building on one of the deserted shepherd's points.

Faces of women and children.

Construction and earthmoving equipment in the desert during night works.

Artist folk ensemble, wipes her tears during a performance of the song.