A Bride of the Seventh Heaven
MovieTitle | Jumalan morsian |
User score | 5.6 |
Release date | Mar 5, 2004 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Anastasia Lapsui , Markku Lehmuskallio |
Production country | Finland |
Production companies | Millennium Film |
Run time | 82 min. |
An elderly Nenets woman in teepee on northern Russia's Yamal Peninsula recounts her early life betrothed to a deity for the entertainment of a blind young girl. In the Nenets culture, a girl child can be married to holiest of holies, Num, before or after her birth. Lonely old Numd' Syarda (which means, literally, 'tied to Num') entertains the blind young Ilne ('giver of life') with stories of how she became one of these chosen few.