Salt for Svaneti (1930)
- Original title
- ჯიმ შვანთე
- Directed by
- Mikhail Kalatozov
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- Georgian SSR
- Runtime
- 55 min
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 28 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This silent documentary shows the everyday life of the Svan people in a remote Georgian mountain village. It focuses on their traditions and the difficult journey to bring salt into the community.
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What happens
Salt for Svanetia (Georgian: მარილი სვანეთს marili svanets; Russian: Соль Сванетии, romanized: Sol' Svanetii) is a 1930 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. As one of the earliest ethnographic films, it documents the life of the Svan people in the isolated mountain village of Ushguli in Svanetia, in the northwestern part of the Georgian Soviet Republic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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