borderline waters (trailer)

Borderline Waters
60' Documentary - HD

Synopsis

A new and different way of discovering the world behind the delta of the River Danube: a river that for hundreds of years has marked important boundaries in Europe until January 2007 when it ceased to act as "borderline.." between neighbouring countries, becoming a free and entirely European river.

Two stories, two different ways of seeing the Delta:

On the one hand, an old fisherman lives between nostalgia and memories, between past and present in a world that is slowly dissapearing, just like the water flowing from the delta into the black sea. The old man represents the story, the experience, the tradition, a living testimony of the population of fishermen: the Lipovens (a population of slavonic origins) who escaped from Russia to find shelter in the marshy labyrinth of the Delta.

On the other hand, a boy, whose curiosity and willingness to learn takes us on a journey of discovery, of exploration of all that is new, of the future and the new countries entering the European Union. Young witness to the fact the Delta represents the youngest European land, a land that started forming only five thousand years ago and like a young child still hasn't stopped growing and changing.

Through their eyes we will explore the delta: the last water frontier dividing the Western Roman Empire from the Eastern "Barbarian world" and at a later stage becoming the ideal commercial waterway between Eastern and Western populations.

The water "... reaches the delta, where the great river abandons its bed, branching out into smaller streams that wither away each in their own direction, like the organs of a human body giving in and progressively becoming unresponsive, until its streams vanish into the sea. It is a slow death, but by no means dramatic. Its death is in fact an incessant regeneration, a luxurious triumph of wildlife and vegetation, a laboratory of life and forms: rushes and herons, sturgeons, wild boars and cormorants, ash trees and beds of reeds as well as one hundred and ten different species of fish and three hundred different species of birds."

"It is here, where the Lipoven fishermen live in rush and mud huts, that all the stories collected and carried by the Danube's waters converge and end"
In that delta where everything mingles together, in a slow digestion that fails to reveal its route so stubbornly sought through the intricate labyrinth between the German and Slavonic worlds: along ex Iron curtains, suspended between Pannonic melancholy and Northern haze, dark bohemian forests and beds of reeds from the Black Sea.


The Danube's delta is a world in which earth and water have undefined boundaries, where the forests are nature's "monuments".

During the course of this journey we will learn more about what is destined to become the largest Natural Park in Eastern Europe. The delta's extraordinary fluvial mouth, unique in its kind not only for its flora, but also for its fauna, the endless stretches of reeds, swamps and marsh lands, bare or wooded sand strips, lakes, canals and islands.




Without forgetting that the Danube's Delta is known worldwide as a bird paradise, with over 300 species that each year migrate to this location for nesting and reproduction purposes (including protected species such as the dwarf cormorant, the toucan, the pellican, the crane etc).

It is a fisherman's paradise (each year the world fishing championships take place in this location). In the Delta's waters there are over 64 species of fish (including carps, pikes, herrings and sturgeons)

The Delta's surface measures 434.000 hectars, 300.000 of which are covered by reeds. The vegetation includes virtually extinct plant species protected by international agreements (such as Angelica officinalis, Otratel and Pestisoara) and there are 3.400 animal species, of which 2.200 are insects.

Through an intricate network of canals, swamps and lakes, the water represents the delta's main mean of motion and at the same time a resting location, a location for nautical activities, sightseeing tours and a location for fishing and hunting.

We will visit the city of Tulcea, the starting point of every sightseeing tour. From there we will move on to other towns that can only be reached by water such as Sfantu Gherghe, the town of fishermen and Sulina where the most important fishing industries were located. We will then travel to the forest of Letea, Caraoman, the endless lakes of Fortuna and Matita, the fisherman's village of Mila23 and more..

A journey through water and sky, history and tradition, past and future...

" ... where does the Danube terminate? There is no end to its unremitting flow, there is only one way to describe it "the infinite"

Produced by: BC Today
Subject/Theme: Alberto Micheli
Directed by: Alberto Micheli
Duration: 60 Minutes
Format: DVCPRO HD

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• danubio
• danube
• romania
• bctoday
• micheli
• alberto
• bc
• today
• delta
• water
• border
• documentary
• documentario

[seank547]

Not bad, not bad at all! Not the best work i've seen from him though, but definitely is a good film, pretty funny as well! Watch it online..... iwatch - movies - online . c o m

[megadude664]

what the fuck is this

[sweitzer77]

Vedendo questo trailer è un bel documentario, ottimo lavoro. Ciao

[Scardare]

its in Romania in Tulcea district.from Bucharest to Tulcea are 300km...

[jblair33]

Who did the research for the synopsis blurb? Lipovans are just Russian Old Believers in Romania.

[bobo1609]

Well u have to come to Europe (if case) than catch a flight to Bucharest, take the train to Tulcea City, near the train station there's the Ship yard where u can take a "Ship" to What ever destination, i sugest Sulina or better make a stop in Crisan village and ask for a Danube Tour and than visit Sulina town. It is the most beautiful place in the world for me.

[satolly]

lovely photos pity it doesn't play smoothly. How do you get there?