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Russia : A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby
Culture, Sociopolitical Documentary hosted by Jonathan Dimbleby and
published by BBC, Discovery Channel in 2008 - English narration
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Across nine time zones and through all extremes of weather, the
resourceful Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey from one end of
Russia to the other, disproving clich�s and revelling in the
unpredictable.
This is televisions first comprehensive journey through the vast and
varied landscapes of Russia. It is an enormous land in which you can
travel half way around the globe without crossing another frontier.
From outside, Russia is both forbidding and enticing. Inside it
becomes an exhilarating adventure.
Look through one window and you see an authoritarian regime trying to
modernise itself into an oil-rich economy. Look through another and
you see an exuberant population enjoying new opportunities while
struggling with old problems.
As he travels, Dimbleby seeks out the people of this strange and
extraordinary land.
From the Arctic Circle where the summer sun never sets to the subzero
wastes of Siberia, from white witches to hirsute masseurs, from oil
wells to shamans, Dimblebys journey by boat, train, truck and foot is
heart-warming, entertaining and compelling.
1) Breaking The Ice
Summer 2006. Having lived through the Cold War, Jonathan makes his
first stop in the city of Murmansk, which stands as a reminder to the
years when England and Russia were close allies in a war of survival
against the Nazis.
But soon he is on the move, entering the strange and remote world of
Karelia and savouring the sophisticated elegance of St Petersburg.
2) Country Matters
If the action in todays Russia is in the cities, the eternal spirit
of Russia is in the countryside. Jonathan finds himself at a reception
for a Madonna concert, attended by anyone whos anyone in Moscow,
including top restaurateur, Arkady Novikov.
But the next day he takes the train to a different world: the family
estate of Leo Tolstoy, arguably the greatest of all Russian writers.
3) Motherland
The symbol of Russian patriotism is the River Volga which runs from
above Moscow through the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea. Not far
from the port of Astrakhan is a tiny village that was once the great
capital of the Golden Horde.
He arrives there in February when the biting wind chills you to the
bone, and is astonished to find how little remains of the western
capital of Genghiz Khans massive empire.
4) National Treasures
Siberia is Russias treasure chest. When the first Cossacks ventured
across the Urals in the 16th century, it was the lucrative fur trade
they were after. But it wasnt long before other riches were found.
Jonathan starts this journey in an emerald mine and then makes his way
down to the great city of Ekaterinburg, built to protect and exploit
reserves of iron ore found in the mountains.
Its heavy industry turned out tanks and armaments during Soviet days -
and also spawned a great tradition of heavy metal music. Jonathan
stops off at a nightclub to meet Vladimir Shakhrin, an icon of
Ekaterinburg rock n roll.
Alcoholism is a huge problem in Russia, killing thousands every year,
often because the only liquor they can afford is home-made poison sold
on the estates in the sprawling suburbs of cities like Ekaterinburg.
Jonathan goes on a raid with a crime-busting group founded by an
ex-alcoholic. They nail one of the small fry - an old lady who sells a
few dozen bottles of illicit booze hidden in her kitchen.
But perhaps the reason why most outsiders have heard of Ekaterinburg
is that this is the place where the last tsar and his family were
murdered by the Bolsheviks.
In woods near the city Jonathan comes across an archaeologist who has
just unearthed what he thinks are the bones of two of the imperial
children, thus solving the puzzle of what had become of them.
5) Far from Moscow
Jonathan follows one of the Red Cross teams struggling to manage the
AIDS epidemic in Irkutsk and visits Birobidzhan, arguably one of the
strangest places in Russia - a Jewish homeland created by Stalin at
the furthest end of his empire.
Not many Jews have survived there, but the people - Jewish or not -
are proud of their unusual heritage. Jonathan finds Hanukah, the
Jewish Festival of Lights, being jointly celebrated by the rabbi and
the mayor.
Finally he comes to his last stop: Vladivostok. Jonathan meets some
students in a caf�. This far from Moscow, will they feel any different
from the chic young people he met in St Petersburg some ten thousand
miles ago?
Not really. They want a strong Russia before they want a democratic
one. As he looks out over the Pacific, Jonathan reflects on how
charming and how different the Russians are from us.
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Video Codec: h264 ,AVC-1
Video Bitrate: 4000 kbps
Video Resolution: 1280x720 (height x width)
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio BitRate: 384 kbps
Audio Streams: 2.0
Audio Languages: English
RunTime Per Part: 45 min
Number Of Parts: 5
Part Size: 1.39 GB
Subtitles: none
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