Listen, Monster Hitler!
2025
27 min.
Director:
Eduard Novikov
Rating (age category):
16+
In January 1945, in Yakutia, a village teacher recorded a shamanic ritual invoking a curse and magical protection against Hitler. A dying shaman shared the ancient rituals and their meaning, revealing a spiritual response to the horrors of war. Today, the unique manuscripts and the biography of the strongest Yakutia shaman Alaadjy are preserved in the scientific archives of the Siberian section of the Academy of Science. In 1947, the New Siberia magazine published the ‘Curse to Hitler in translation form Yakut into Russian by Anatoly Olkhon. The film gives voice to an extraordinary tradition through this translation, bringing this forgotten testimony back to life.