Privezentsev Library

Documentary Films

Motorcycle expeditions and literary journeys by Maxim Privezentsev

Russian Tales: Around the World
Films· 2012

Russian Tales: Around the World

A multi-episode film about a round-the-world journey: 227 days on the road, 5 continents, 55,000 kilometers by motorcycle, 36 countries. An adventure that stays with you for life.

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Rally Rodina. Island of Exile
Films· 2017

Rally Rodina. Island of Exile

A film about a motorcycle journey from Sakhalin to Saint Petersburg, undertaken by six riders on brand-new Ural motorcycles. What has changed in the 48 years since the all-Union "Rodina" rally last followed this route in 1967?

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Lermontov's Scottish Wind
Films· 2018

Lermontov's Scottish Wind

Lermontov's lineage had Scottish roots. Maxim Privezentsev explores them on a motorcycle journey through Scotland, asking whether the poet's life could have turned out differently had he found himself in 1841 in the hills of Scotland rather than the Caucasus.

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Dervishes on Motorcycles. Caspian Nomads
Films· 2018

Dervishes on Motorcycles. Caspian Nomads

The Asia of great conquerors and whirling dervishes, prophets and warriors, mystics and rulers. In the desert, each turn of the motorcycle's wheel is like the dance of a weaver's shuttle, tracing a pattern on an endless carpet.

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Dichroa. Diaries of Tibetan Wanderings
Films· 2020

Dichroa. Diaries of Tibetan Wanderings

A film about a journey into a mysterious region. The 2019 expedition retraced the route of Russian traveler Gombojab Tsybikov into early-20th-century Tibet — exploring how Tibet has changed over 120 years and how attitudes to life and death shift.

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