Anastasia Lapsui

Anastasia Lapsui (born 1944) is a Soviet-born Russian Nenets film director, screenwriter, and radio journalist who has lived in Finland since 1993. Like the Finnish language, the Nenets languages belong to the Uralic languages family. Among Lapsui's honors are the Jussi Award for Best Film, and the Grand Prize at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival.

Anastasia Lapsui (2009)

Biography

Anastasia Lapsui was born in Nida, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, northwest of Siberia, in 1944. She graduated from Ural State University in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Early in her career, she was a radio reporter in the city of Salekhard, and also wrote screenplays. Together with her husband, Markku Lehmuskallio, she has directed films about the Nenets, the Sami, and other aboriginal peoples from around the world.[1] Of the movie Matkalla (On the Way), completed in 2007, Lapsui says:— "This movie has a special meaning to me. In it, I present my own view of the Nenets religion and the afterlife."[2]

Awards

Filmography
  • 1993, Poron hahmossa pitkin taivaankaarta (editing, music, narrator, recording)
  • 1994, Kadotettu paratiisi (planning, Nenets / Finnish translations, editing, recording)
  • 1995, Jäähyväisten kronikka (editing)
  • 1997, Anna (directing, manuscript)
  • 1998, Uhri -- elokuva metsästä (directing, planning, recording, editing)
  • 1999, Seven Songs from the Tundra (directing, costume, cut, staging, manuscript)
  • 2001, Paimen (directing, manuscript)
  • 2002, Elämän äidit (directing, editing, voice, songs)
  • 2003, Jumalan morsian (directing, costume, manuscript)
  • 2004, Fata Morgana (directing, editing, recording, manuscript)
  • 2005, Fata Morgana (screenplay, editing, recording)
  • 2006, Saamelainen (guidance, editing)
  • 2007, Matkalla (directing, screenplay, actor)
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See also

References
  1. "A tribute to Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio - La Cinémathèque québécoise". www.cinematheque.qc.ca. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  2. Anneli Ahonen, Oman kansansa tiennäyttäjä. Helsingin Sanomat, 25.7.2007, p. C6.
  3. "He saivat taiteilijaeläkkeet - katso lista!". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 30 June 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
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