Russian Gas and the Nenets

Russian Gas and the Nenets (2023)

Documentary

In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia’s energy hyperpower, which caused the appetite of oil corporations. But the Yamal peninsula is also the ancestral home of the Nenets, who have been pasturing here with their droves for over 200 generations. Every year the nomads undertake a journey of 1500 km. But for how much longer can they survive? Today in Yamal, pastures have given way to gas fields. Growing towns, a railway, an airport, the deep scars on the landscape caused by extraction of gas and oil, and the new nuclear-powered icebreakers, which will create busy shipping lanes in the Arctic, are all changing the local ecosystem. With the industry dramatically modifying the landscape, accelerating the effects of global warming, the Nenets way of life is under threat. The documentary gives a unique insight into a vanishing way of life, enhanced by stunning aerial footage, and rare access to an extraordinary people.

Director: Sergio Ghizzardi

Casts

	Florian Stammler as Self - Interviewee
	Julienne Stroeve as Self - Interviewee
	Alexandra Terekhina as Self - Interviewee
	Vassily Serotetto as Self - Interviewee
	Alik Serotetto as Self - Interviewee
	Galina Serotetto as Self - Interviewee
	Olga Serotetto as Self - Interviewee
	Tolik Serotetto as Self - Interviewee
	Myadme Khudi as Self - Interviewee
	Myangche Khudi as Self - Interviewee
	Valerii Khudi as Self - Interviewee
	Nelya Leonidovna as Self - Interviewee
	Aleksander Aliseevic as Self - Interviewee
	Vyacheslav Ruksha as Self - Interviewee
	Nikolay Monko as Self
	Mikhail Grigoriev as Self
	Alexei Taragupta as Self
	Vadim Petrenko as Self
	Alexey Kontorovich as Self
	Vladimir Putin as Self (archive footage)

Crew