Eastern Memories

Directed by Martti Kaartinen, Niklas Kullström

Written by Martti Kaartinen

At the turn of the 19th and 20th century Finnish philologist G. J. Ramstedt travelled around Mongolia and Central-Asia. In this documentary Ramstedt’s memoirs are heard in the modern day setting, where tradition is replaced with hunger for money, and deserts give way to cities.