Robert Merkun
Directing
Biography
Robert Merkun was a filmmaker who made live-action and documentary films for the North Ossetian Film Studio in the USSR.
Known For
Two poor people, Ossetian and Ingush, are fighting each other over a meter of land in the mountains. A revolution begins, and their younger brothers become brother-friends.
Bonfires on the Towers
Documentary film about the labor activity of residents of Chechen-Ingush ASSR
Labor rhythms of Checheno-Ingushetia
How wedding was held half a century ago.
Farn
Zalina, a young irrigation expert, arrives at a collective farm in North Ossetia and gets caught up in a romantic entanglement.
Blame It on Zalina
About the miners of the Sadon lead-zinc combine. About three generations of miners.
Housewarming on a Weekday
Residents of village Atagi, their life and problems.
Difficult spring in Atagi
A documentary film by North Ossetian television about how a river flowing through several republics of the North Caucasus unites people living in them. Together they build bridges, work in production, create the famous Tersko-Kuma irrigation canal, and a state farm where grapes are grown.… This is a film about the friendship of many generations of peoples inhabiting the shores of the buiny Terek, and about the benefits that the river gives to man.
Terek the River of Friendship
Searching for the source of highlander's longevity