British director to bid the tale of Agafia Lykova,the only remaining member of a family of mature Believers who fled to remote Siberian taiga in 1936 Agafia Lykova emerges from the thick forest on the banks of the Abakan river looking like an image from Russian folklore. Dressed in black sackcloth and a tattered headscarf with a triangular prayer amulet around her neck, she greets the visitors arriving by helicopter from another world.
Seventy-year-mature Lykova lives a two-week walk, or her only means of transport,away from the nearest human settlement in the industrial town of Tashtagol.
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Source: theguardian.com