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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013•1h 39m•6.2/10
DocumentaryMusic

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6.2/10(20)

A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Three moments for a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present.

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Rouge International, Must Käsi, Doc Society

Language

EN

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Cast

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

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