Vladimir Marin entered the Faculty of Geology of Moscow State University in 1994. In 2002, he graduated from the VGIK (the Directing Faculty, Honoured Artist of USSR Vladimir Naumov’s feature film workshop). He began working as a director-cameraman of scientific and search-and-rescue expeditions with the participation of the EMERCOM of Russia in 2004. Vladimir conducted 15 sea and a number of land expeditions related to popular science as a director-cameraman and director of filming. He has been the head of the IORAN Video Studio at the P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 2009 to the present. The films Dangerous Baltic, A Hundred Skins of Unkilled Bears, Beyond the Kara Gate, The Secret of the White Jailbreaker, Odyssey of Worlds, Neseyka: The Youngest Daughter became laureates of major Russian and international film festivals.
A SHORT TUTORIAL ON RAISING SEALS
Popular Science | Russia | Vladimir Marin | 2020 | 52 min. | 6+
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Amazing events happen in St. Petersburg in Russia. During spring, people found baby seals just on the banks of the Neva River. Not long ago it was considered that the Baltic seals had become finally extinct. Or maybe, people simply have not noticed them before. Only due to the efforts of the staff of the Seal Salvation Centre St. Petersburg residents once saw those creatures which had been living near them for centuries.
The creators of the Centre, Vyacheslav and Elena – could not even think that one day a child with flippers would appear in their family. Twice they tried to release that strange seal called Kroshik into the wild, like hundreds of other saved seal cubs, but it did not want to part with humans. Kroshik won the hearts not only of his saviours, but became the city’s favourite.
What other unusual and even fantastic stories take place on the banks of the Neva and Lake Ladoga with people and seals?! And is there any hope that these animals will not finally disappear from our planet?
