64 minutes to save your soul — and maybe the planet too.
Baikal is the oldest, the deepest and the purest lake on the planet. But it's not only that - Baikal is an ideal model of our world, as it shall be. Everything is possible here: to walk on water, to touch the sky, to talk with the universe. Baikal is our hope and our future. It's a film about the thirst, about the eternity and about all of us. The genre is epic documentary. The aim is to change the world.
Cinematography
Frozen waves that look like alien sculptures.
Score
Music that makes ice sound like cathedral bells.
Direction
Popova turns a lake into a religion.
Director
Anastasiya Popova
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Konstantin Khabenskiy is a massive Russian film star — casting him as narrator is like getting DiCaprio for your nature doc.
Lake Baikal holds 20% of Earth's unfrozen freshwater; indigenous Buryat people consider it sacred, which the film honors through Tsydenov and Tulunov's contributions.
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