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EN: A team of young independent Czech filmmakers led by Jana Sevciková filmed for 5 years the daily life and beliefs of the Starovers (Lipovans) whose ancestors emigrated to the Danube Delta due to religious persecution since the 18th century. Participating in all stages of community life: baptisms, marriages and funerals, the documentary manages to express a true fresco of the life of the Starovers in the Danube Delta at the end of the 19th century. The documentary, whose first images were filmed in 1983, was released in 2001 with funding from the Czech government, was nominated for Best Czech Documentary at the Jilava International Documentary Festival and won the Don Quixote Award at the Krakow Film Festival in 2002 and the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in 2001. EN: A team of young independent Czech filmmakers led by Jana Sevcikova filmed for 5 years the everyday life and beliefs of the starovers (Lipovans) whose ancestors emigrated to the Danube Delta due to religious persecutions in the eighteenth century. Participating in all stages of community life: baptisms, marriages and funerals, the documentary manages to express a true fresco of the life of the starovers in the Danube Delta at the end of the nineteenth century. The documentary whose first images were filmed in 1983 was launched in 2001 with funding from the Czech government, nominated for the Best Czech Documentary of the International Documentary Festival Jilava and the Don Quixote Award Winner of the Krakow Film Festival in 2002 and the special prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in 2001. During the course of 5 years, she filmed the everyday life and beliefs of the Ctarovers (Lipovans), whose ancestors emigrated to the Danube delta due to religious persecution in the eighteenth century. Participating in all stages of social life: baptisms, marriages and funerals, the documentary film allows you to express the true fresco of the life of Ctarovery in the Danube Delta at the end of the nineteenth century. The documentary film, whose first images were shot in 1983, was launched in 2001 with the financial support of the Czech government, nominated for the best Czech documentary film at the International Documentary Festival "Dzhilava" and the winner of the "Don Quixote" award at the Krakow Film Festival in 2002 and the special prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the International Film Festival in Mannheim-Heidelberg in 2001 year.