An Unknown Compelling Force

The documentary takes up the Dyatlov Pass incident. The event happened at the beginning of February 1959. Nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Urals. Igor Dyatlov led the group. The cause of the deaths has never been settled. The film takes up the theories that have been put forward, one by one. For that the director travels to the Urals. He talks with Russian journalists and with friends of the hikers. Yuri Yudin appears in the film as well. Yudin was the tenth member, who left the group. He had turned back on the twenty eighth of January 1959 for medical reasons. The account reaches no firm conclusion. Svetlana Oss and Yuri Kuntsevich also speak in Liam Le Guillou’s American documentary of 2021.