Kalevala The first rune (music by Bon Voyage music project)

The national epics of Finland, Kalevala is the most translated work of Finnish literature. Mr. Elias Lönnrot collected the runes and published Kalevala over 180 years ago. Since its first publication in 1835 it has been translated into sixty-one language. The latest one is Belarusian that was published in 2015. To mark the 100th anniversary year of the independence of Finland, the Liaison office of Finland in Belarus in cooperation with a creative Belarusian team has made a beautiful film of the first rune, the creation of the world. We thank Kalevala association, Kalevala products and Mr. Markku Räsänen for their contributions, Anton Mekh and Anna Aheeva for their professional work in producing the work, Russian painter Igor Baranov for beautiful artworks, Olga Peregud and Bon Voyage for the beautiful music, International School of Minsk, State Linguistic University of Minsk and diplomats and businessmen for reading the text. In the film you will hear pieces of this beautiful rune in 35 languages, though n