Before Lennart Meri become the highly respected President of Estonia, he was a writer, translator and filmmaker. He produced several documentaries and published five books during his lifetime, his best known work was Hõbevalge (Silver White) which is a travel memoir narrating the history of Europe and Estonia. Meri was a passionate ethnographer and in his 1970 documentary Veelinnurahvas he takes us on a journey through the vast and colourful world of the Uralic peoples.
