A short documentary dedicated to Varvara Buzilă, bessarabian ethnologist
Growing up near Orheiul Vechi archaeological site, immersed in cultural heritage, Varvara Buzilă embraced early the "luminous path of heritage”, as she calls it today. Over 45 years of research across archives, libraries and 850 Moldovan settlements resasearched in the field, were subject of her tireless efforts to safeguard cultural heritage as a foundation of national identity. Through recording, classification, legislation, writing, promotion at all levels - culminating in UNESCO recognition - she revitalizes local traditional culture for present and future. Her work cements her status as a landmark of Moldovan tod...