On November 6, as part of a series of events dedicated to the Year of the Family, the Russian Embassy in Bucharest organized the premiere screening of the documentary “Weddings played by People” on the site of the Russian Club, dedicated to the traditions of celebrating weddings in Russia.
The guests of the screening (the film was shown with Romanian subtitles) were several dozen Romanian citizens and compatriots. Before the start of the film session, the audience watched a video message from the author and director of the film Natalia Kadyrova, who during the year of the project witnessed weddings in seven Russian regions, studied wedding rituals and learned from couples why they decided to return to forgotten traditional rituals at the conclusion of marriage.
A photo exhibition was launched in the lobby of the Russian Club, provided by Denis Knyazev, the founder of the project “Weddings of the Peoples of the World: Cultural Heritage”, which served as the starting point for filming the film and aimed at preserving unique wedding traditions as monuments of intangible ethnocultural heritage. An Embassy employee conducted a mini-tour of the photo exhibition, telling the guests about some of the features of Russian weddings in Zaonezhye and the Belgorod region, introducing interesting facts about the wedding traditions of the Besermans, mountain Mari, Kalmyks, Nenets, Udmurts and Erzya.
The visitors of the exhibition were provided with information about the unique project “Weddings of the Peoples of the World: Cultural Heritage”, within the framework of which expeditions to remote corners of Russia and the world were organized to film and reconstruct wedding ceremonies of indigenous ethnic groups, and under the auspices of the Russian Commission for UNESCO, several books in the series “Weddings of the Peoples of Russia” were released and presented to the UN.
