Antico documentario russo sulla antica tradizione della falconeria. Caccia con il sacro alla lepre, con l’astore all’anatra, con lo sparviero alla quaglia. Suggestivo.

A Soviet documentary film on traditional falconry in Turkmenistan, Abkhazia and Abjaria.

Directed by Yuri Klimov in 1988 for Lennauchfilm, a studio making educational films. The consultant for the film was Vladimir Yevgenevich Flint, who wrote a well-known book on falconry, “Falcon on Glove” (Сокол на перчатке – Sokol na perchatke).

“Falconry” (Соколиная Охота – Sokolinaya Okhota) from Central Asian Falconry Project on Vimeo.