Synopsis
After escaping from the gulag on Yakut horses, a shaman and Dimitri the violonist flee through the taiga. Before dying, the shaman tells his companion that the spirits surround him and that they will accompany him during his adventures and encounters on the journey to those vast open spaces where no man can survive alone...
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- Executive Producer : mk2 films
- Foreign production company : Groupe d'Édition Progress (Le)
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : MKL Distribution
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Marin Karmitz
- Screenwriters : Jean-Louis Gouraud, Bartabas
- Directors of Photography : Marie Solovyeva, Mikhail Agranovitch
- Music Composer : Jean-Pierre Drouet
- Editors : Joseph Licidé, Svetlana Ivanova
- Sound recordists : Igor Maiorov, Juri Reinbah
- Costume designer : Violetta Elfimova
- Production Manager : Yvon Crenn
- Press Attachés (film) : Eva Simonet, Nathalie Gorgon
- Sound Editor : Laurent Kossayan
- Production Designer : Vladimir Kirs
- Sound mixers : Thierry Lebon, Vincent Arnardi
- Still Photographer : Antoine Poupel
- Second unit director : Marie Vermillard
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Coproducer countries : Russia, France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Russia, France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 06/03/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 87.399
- Visa issue date : 19/02/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby A
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""Shaman" is above all the tale of an inner journey in which we find the themes Bartabas cherishes : drifting and spiritual quest. For although he claims to fear neither God nor man, Bartabas continually strives towards that unreachable star. "I'm a poet who rides horses and I must fell passionate about my work," confides Bartabas. (...) "We've lost our sense of human relationships and our contact with nature. Man is no more important than an animal, a tree, he's simply one part of a whole. That's what I tried to express in "Shaman" by showing a man who owes his survival to horse while conforming scrupulously to the rhythm of nature."(...) Casting aside the usual cinematic constraints, Bartabas used a great deal of improvisation in the movie.(...) "My film was thus enriched by a thousand minor details that I could never have imagined before filming. It was magical !""
(Bartabas, in an interview with Brigitte Baudin, Le Figaro)
