Shot on film between 1988 and 1993 and re-edited by the filmmaker in 2015, Days of Future Buddhas had also been banned… so has now returned to us from afar. Moreover, its subject is persistence – that of Buddhism in Russia during the Soviet era. The khambo-lama Mungko, whose burning funeral pyre is seen at the beginning of the film, will, according to belief, be reborn many times.

Days of Future Buddhas

Siberia. The sparsely populated village of Krotov. The farmer Vasily Dmitrievich Abramov lives in the village completely alone, since in 2005 his sons were convicted of murder and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment ... The film, shot for 10 years, is the last work of the classic of the national documentary film Valery Solomin. It was completed by his sons Eugene and Viktor Solomin.