Deutsche Welle Video: Europe’s Only Buddhist Country

July 13, 2019

Deutsche Welle New video
about Kalmykia, buddhism and steppe.

Deutsche Welle: Europe’s Only Buddhist Country | Welcome to Kalmykia | Europe to The Maxx

Video duration 16m 14s

Travel to Russia and Kalmykia




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The famous actress and model Eugenia Mandzhieva is among the nominees for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards

October 23, 2015

The famous actress and model Eugenia Mandzhieva is among the nominees for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Film “The gulls”, created by Ella Manzheeva, talks about the difficult life of the inhabitants of the city Lagan, living by the sea on the edge of Europe – in a little known and mysterious Republic of Kalmykia.

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Berlin Film Review: “The Gulls”

March 1, 2015

The Gulls film Alissa Simon
Berlin Film Review: “The Gulls”

A powerfully atmospheric but narratively understated debut for talented Kalmykia-born helmer-writer Ella Manzheeva.

An unhappily married young woman who can’t quite bring herself to change her life finds that fate has a way of intervening in “The Gulls”, a powerfully atmospheric but narratively understated debut that nevertheless marks Russian helmer-writer Ella Manzheeva as a talent to watch. Manzheeva sets the minimalistic action in her homeland, Kalmykia, (more…)




A film about Kalmykia “The Gulls” will represent Russia in Berlin

January 28, 2015

The Gulls Film “The Gulls”

Elza lives in a small town Lagan in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea.

Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see.

One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. (more…)




Young kalmyk actor Eugene Sangadzhiev in the film about Stalin

October 25, 2013

Young kalmyk actor Eugene Sangadzhiev in the film about Stalin. He was born on June 5, 1986 in Elista, reports Independent Kalmyk Art Center. Eugene Sangadzhiev in 2005 he graduated from the College of Arts in Elista (Department of choreography).

This film is the most expecting in this year. We all can have different attitude to this great person but we can’t deny that he had strong and hard character.

From the one side, he (more…)










Film about tour in Kalmykia from Czech Television

November 5, 2012

Kalmykia Film about tour in Kalmykia from Czech Television www.CeskaTelevize.cz is very interesting, beautiful and sapid. The film is made with the free support of KalmykiaTour.com and Fund.

Film about tour in Kalmykia

Scenario Jaroslav Jindra
Dramatist Jan Tobias
Art director Vit Belohradsky
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Tibet Days Hosted In Kalmyk Republic

September 22, 2012

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of founding of the Friends of Tibet Society (FTS) in Kalmyk Republic, a variety of public events, such as seminars, lectures and teaching on the Buddhist philosophy and cultural heritage, exhibition, film screening and talks on Tibet were organized recently in Elista, capital of Kalmyk Republic in Russian Federation, reported Central Tibetan Administration (Dharamsala).

The Flame of Truth torch and Tibetan delegation, led by Representative Ngawang Rabgyal and (more…)




Recommended movies

August 11, 2012

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Little Buddha Recommended movies [ En | Ru ]

Films that is desirable to look before travel to the blessed Kalmykia.

Little Buddha (Bernardo Bertolucci film. Starring Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Sogyal rinpoche)

Buddha life (BBC) (more…)




Czech Television makes film about Kalmykia

July 16, 2012

Kalmykia Czech Television makes film about Kalmykia. Today, 16 of July the city of Elista (Kalmykia) has been visited Czech Television ceskatelevize.cz, says the Kalmyk information and touristic centre “www.Kalmykia.EU”.

In the buddhist Elista, the foreign television “Česká televize” had been met by the official Kalmyk representatives from the support fund of the Republic of Kalmykia and from companies (more…)




“I am grateful that I exist in this world” – US-born Kalmyk Supreme Lama

April 11, 2012

“I am grateful that I exist in this world” – US-born Kalmyk Supreme Lama.

It is important not to give up hope, the sun is always going to shine tomorrow and there is always a brighter future, teaches Supreme Lama of Kalmykia Telo Tulku Rinpoche, born in America and preaching in Kalmykia. (more…)