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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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