The film tells about people tired of life in big cities and settled in the extreme conditions of the Far North, about hunters from the Taimyr Peninsula.
Panorama of a snow-covered reservoir in the tundra.
A shaggy dog wags its tail.
Two men unload a sled.
A mountain range.
Two men walk along a path to a hunting lodge.
Caption: "Hermits." A bookshelf.
A man sits on a couch, plays the guitar.
A second man walks up to the table.
Bookshelf.
A hunter talks about life in the far north.
On the shelf is a spool of thread and a Rubik's cube.
A hunter talks about life in the tundra.
The second hunter is at the table.
The third hunter is at the stove, preparing chips for making a fire.
A hunter with a guitar.
Panorama of a frozen lake.
A flock of birds over the water's surface.
The birds are landing on the water.
A hunter is sitting on the shore, near a boat, smoking, talking about life in the tundra.
Hilly terrain in the snow.
A hunter talks about census of sturgeon fish on the middle Ob.
Another hunter is squatting with a dog, the dog licks his face.
A hunter about fishing poaching.
River bank, boat, dog.
Three hunters get into a boat with a dog and cast off.
Another hunter in the grass.
Panorama of a river bay.
Motorboat, dog in the stern.
Seagull.
Hunter takes a fishing net out of the water.
Fish are flapping in the box.
Hunter sits on the bow of the boat, takes fish out of the net.
There is a box with fish at the bottom of the boat.
Coniferous trees.
Hunter in a motorboat.
Panorama of a river bay.
Hunting camp.
Hunting hut.
Fish is drying.
Hunter spreads the net.
Panorama of a hunting camp on the coast.
Hunters minding their own business.
Panorama of the tundra.
Hunter receives a telegram on the switchboard, writes it down.
Another hunter is weaving a fishing net.
Hunter reports on the switchboard that he has received the telegram.
Bench, dog sleeping in the yard, wooden shed.
Raindrops falling on the rocky surface.
A hunter in a canvas raincoat smokes.
An axe sticks out of a stump.
Tundra, river, mountains, forest, hunters, hut, boat
Anatoly Kopytov
Vladimir Protasov
Yuri Tyumentsev
Vladimir Rovda
Evgeniy Vereshintsev
Taimyr
Spring Summer
Forest fire.
Cloudy sky.
Hunter enters hut.
View of bay and hilly terrain.
Kayak on the river.
Mountains reflected in the river.
Three men rowing in kayak.
Ripples on water.
Hunters and dog near tent.
Kayak on water.
Hunters at wooden table.
View of river through tree branches.
Hunters at table talking, looking at map.
Hunters drinking tea.
Maps on table, old-style passport.
Panorama of shore with wooden buildings and hunter's hut.
Hunters at table.
View of mountains.
Forest fire.
Hunter with bucket climbing hill.
Small greenhouse, fenced garden bed.
Hunter picks radishes, washes them in bucket of water.
Panorama of mountain range.
View of river.
Hunter covers garden bed with film.
Bowl with radishes.
Butterfly sitting on hunter's head.
A hunter weeds the garden beds.
A view of the river.
A hunter about life and work in the far north.
A panorama of snow-capped mountains and a river.
A hunter covers seedlings with film.
A pile of stones and a view of the chimneys of city factories.
A ceiling made of wooden beams, a woodpile.
A hunter scoops flour from a box with a mug and pours it into a sieve.
A hunter sifts flour.
Rural utensils on the walls.
A hunter kneads dough.
Kerosene lamps, packs of cigarettes on the stove.
Proofing the dough.
A panorama of the mountains.
A hunter looks at the river, smokes a cigarette.
The hunter opens the stove damper, takes out the bread pans, and turns the loaves over onto a newspaper.
The hunter covers the loaves with a towel.
Newspaper article: "So who won't finish building the house?"
Forest, mountains, river, tundra, forest fires, agriculture
Anatoly Kopytov
Vladimir Protasov
Yuri Tyumentsev
Vladimir Rovda
Evgeniy Vereshintsev
Taimyr
Summer
A hunter with a gun lands on the shore, a dog meets him.
The hunter shakes hands with his colleague.
Another hunter hugs the dog.
The dog gives the hunter a paw.
The other two watch and laugh.
The hunter adjusts the tarpaulin on the woodpile, jumps to the ground.
The hunters go deep into the yard.
A barge is moving along the river.
The hunters watch from the shore, smoke.
A wooden table covered with utensils.
The hunter changes the motor in the boat.
The hunter discusses work issues.
Tarpaulin boots are drying.
The hunters are getting ready for dinner.
The hunter cuts dried red fish.
The hunters talk.
The hunter on the shore, sitting on a snag, near the boat.
Water surface.
Snag.
Panorama of the mountain range on the other side of the bay.
Sunbeams.
The window of the hut.
The sun is setting in the mountains.
Fast movement of clouds.
A helicopter in the sky.
View from a helicopter.
Helicopter over a village.
A woman is sawing a log.
Another woman is pulling out a child whose boots are stuck in clay.
Boys and a pack of dogs are running after a tractor.
An old woman with an axe.
Hunters are walking through a village, off-road.
Rural residents.
Dogs at the porch of the local Executive Committee.
Hunters at the Executive Committee, a female secretary is accepting documents.
Off-road in the village, men at a barn.
A female secretary.
Hunters' faces, they are asking to consider their application for land for their own construction.
A female secretary.
Hunters.
A female secretary says goodbye to the hunters.
From the authors of the film: "The issue of allocating land plots has been resolved positively." Spruce branches tremble in the wind.
A hunter's face.
Picturesque view of a river bay.
Panorama of a mountain range.
Mountains reflected in the water.
A motorboat moving on the water.
Names of the Taimyr fishermen: Anatoly Kopytov, Vladimir Protasov, Yuri Tyumentsev, Vladimir Rovda, Evgeny Vereshchintsev.
River, forest, tundra, dog, mountains, hunters, countryside
Anatoly Kopytov
Vladimir Protasov
Yuri Tyumentsev
Vladimir Rovda
Evgeniy Vereshintsev
Taimyr
Summer