The Dragon's Egg
- Director:
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- Allan King
- Producer:
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- Allan King
- Cinematographer:
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- William Brayne
- Editor:
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- Nick Hector
- Sound:
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- Derek Pert
- Music:
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- Bill Thompson
- Executive Producer:
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- Elizabeth Yake
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- Country:Canada
- Year:1999
- Length:102 min
- Data rate:7.5 MB/min
- Description
- Exploring the reconciliation of ethnic conflict, a group of American scholars, from the University of Virginia, have a charitable grant to offer any group of ten or more Russians and Estonians who can work together for a common goal. Twenty Russians and Estonians in Klooga seize the challenge and form a committee to convert a former Officers Club into a community centre for their children. If they can work together, they will get $50,000 to pay for the project. If they fail, they will slip back into the mire of ethnic strife, which has cursed the region for centuries. One third of Estonia's people are Russian; most of them put there by Stalin. An Estonian says it's like having a dragon's egg laid in your nest: you wait in fear for it to hatch. The Russians in Klooga, an abandoned Soviet army base, are struggling to build a community with their new Estonian neighbours. Estonians would rather not give them citizenship, residence or even jobs; they wish they would go home. THE DRAGON'S EGG charts the journey of courageous people forging a future for themselves amidst the ruins of war. Best Director nomination,1999 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and has since been nominated for two Gemini Awards.
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